The way cats drink is a wonder of science, say scientists. Researchers and cat experts have wondered for decades how cats lap up milk so well. Now the secret is out. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used high-speed video to look at a cat’s drinking technique. The film was looked at in slow motion. The camera showed a cat shoots its tongue into the milk in a J shape at speeds of 78 centimeters per second. The cat does not scoop the milk into its mouth; the milk simply sticks to its tongue.
We have to wonder why it has taken so long to uncover this secret. We have been studying cats for hundreds of years. MIT researcher Pedro Reis also wonders why. He said: “It’s amazing how you look at something and think, somebody must have studied that before. But as happens with many things in everyday life, that is not the case.” Reis called the new cat-lapping discovery “one of the excitements of science”. We still have a lot to learn about the animal world. We have even more to learn about the human body.
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