Recall that an octave is the range of sounds, higher or lower, from one musical note to the next corresponding note—say, from C to the next ...
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Bright-eyed to the end
eyes seem to close more often for sleep.
Bi-eyes
amber , and you’ll usually find it among white cats. It’s a genetic oddity that is little understood. Some people find it unpleasant to look...
Nictitate = wink
Your cat possesses one more eyelid (per eye) than you do. This is the haw eyelid, or nictitating membrane. (The verb nictitate means “to win...
A soft-focus world
vision is superior to ours. Their amazing ability to sense motion (obviously something that would be highly useful to a predator seeking pr...
Focusing on details
Cats amaze people with their ability to focus in on some tiny object—say, a gnat or a tiny lizard crawling on the fence. The retina of a cat...
Can they see in color?
eyes have two types of sensory cells: rods sense shape and cones sense color. (The old memory trick for sorting out which is which is to re...
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