Did the Egyptians really worship cats?

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Cat mummies

Egyptians believed that the afterlife was essentially like earthly life, they mummified mice to place in the tombs as food for the cat mumm...

No fang, no mate

During mating, the tomcat always sinks his canine teeth—the fangs—into the neck skin of the female. This isn’t optional, and if for some rea...

Love bites

Cats, like most animals, have sex strictly for reproduction, and so it only takes place when the female is fully fertile. Part of the brief ...

The Sunshine State cat

Florida is the very rare Florida panther. Scientists debate whether the panther is a subspecies of the cougar (see 437) or a separate speci...

The biggest

striped , and though we assume they are all orangey in color, their color varies widely depending on location. Tigers in Russia and northern...

Heat, phase II

maintain for up to three minutes without stopping. Bothersome as it is to us, it serves the obvious purpose of letting the tomcats know s...