How many muscles does a cat have?
There are 32 of them just to control the ear! In all, a cat has 517 muscles. A cat’s heart beats 120 times a minute when resting and 240 beats a minute when active. In general, smaller animals have a quicker heart rate than larger ones. What about a cat’s purr? How do they do that? Cat anatomy includes a blood vein called the vena cava. This vein narrows where it pass into the liver and diaphragm. When the cat is relaxed, the blood in this vein forms ripples, which make the vibrations we feel when a cat is purring. On each front paw, cats have five claws, and on each rear paw, they have four. It is not unusual for a cat to have an extra toe, however. This oddity of cat anatomy is known as polydactylism. How many teeth does a cat have? It has thirty, and each one is designed for doing a special job. The teeth of a cat can cut through a rodent’s spine. It’s molars cut the food into bite size pieces. Cat anatomy is such that cats cannot move their jaws from side to side, so they tend to s
