Another Caturday is here!

What better way to start a Caturday morning than with some fun, useless, interesting facts about our friends’ friends?

 

• A common garden snail has 14,000 teeth. Their microscopic teeth are called radula, and some species actually have over 20,000 teeth.

• A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.

• The Giant Pacific Octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains and blue blood.

• The male seahorse goes through pregnancy and gives birth to babies. They are the only animal on earth where the male carries the baby rather than the female.

• Owls don’t have eyeballs—they’re more like eye tubes. They’re elongated and held in place by a bony structure in the skull called a sclerotic ring.

• Koala fingerprints are so close to humans’ that they could taint crime scenes.

• Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.

•  Polar bears have jet black skin under their white fur coats.
  It helps them absorb heat to keep warm, while the white fur helps provides camouflage in the snowy and icy environment they live.

• Male Gentoo penguins search through piles of pebbles to find the smoothest, most perfect ones. When he has selected his pebble, he presents it to his intended companion. The gift acknowledges the relationship between the two penguins and helps grow the nest for their budding family.

• Dogs have over 100 facial expressions. So take that, cats!