Cats are Delicate Indeed
Have you ever observed dogs and cats drinking water? Surely you have noticed a difference in their styles. Dogs drink water in a noisy, sloppy way usually spilling the water around the bowl. Cats drink water almost silently without spilling it. This is not the only difference, scientists found that cat’s and dog’s technique is also quite different although both cats and dogs actually lap water with their tongues instead of drinking it directly as we do.
Scientists discovered that cat’s actually suck up water with the tip of there tongue, which is possible thank to the high flexibility of the cats tongues which they also use for grooming. When drinking cats curve there tongue backward so that the top surface lightly touches the water. Then the cat move its tongue very quickly which forces the water to form a liquid column. Then the cat closes its jaw to capture the water and swallow it. The forces that allow this process are gravity and inertia. It seems that cats new a scientific way of drinking water. Also scientist measures that cats move their tongues very quickly almost one meter per second, but the larger cat the slower it laps