This month has been a difficult one for me, and it’s meant that I haven’t been able to publish my usual two posts. But rather than not publishing anything this month, I thought I’d provide a short but hopefully interesting post about the remarkable structure and behaviour of the domestic cat’s tongue – this is a must for all cat lovers who haven’t spent too much time reading up on their physiology, or anyone who’s ever wondered why cat’s licks can feel so rough on human skin.
The best part about discovering unusual and remarkable new things about animals we otherwise think we know so well is that it allows us to see them in a totally different light.. even if only for a while. I hope you enjoy these pictures, links and videos:
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Some people reading this will have come back to this site having used it previously to locate information about the Cape Animal Behaviour Centre, or are people that know us, but hopefully it will soon begin to also include many who are coming here for the first time and are doing so specifically because they are interested in what we are now doing. The Animal Rehabilitation Initiative (ARI) was where most of us involved in the CABC started on this journey, and is in many ways our first and abiding love.
Recent articles
- Dominance: Empathy, Cooperation, Fairness and Reciprocity in Animals?
- Dominance: Top Dogs Pull Rank
- The Weird Reality of Cat’s Tongues
- Other-blaming and collateral damage
- Local Dog Whisperer: Rehabilitation isn’t ‘cure’ – Part 3
- Local Dog Whisperer: Whispering Sweet Nothings – Part 2
- Local ‘Dog Whisperer’s’ dogs bite.. again: The Incidents – Part I
- One year ends, another begins..
- The flipside of holidays
- Videos: Recent scientific research about dogs.. and us.
- The ties that bind
- The fireworks menace: thoughts and some tips
- Videos: Jaak Panksepp
- Emotions Are Back
- Is the Humane Movement promoting controversial breeds?
- Pit Bulls: Part 2 – History and genetics
- A little time for reflection
- Township Dog Attacks 3: Animal Birth Control
- Township Dog Attacks 2: Labels shape expectations
- Dogs kill toddler in Cape Town
Recent Comments
- pearson on Local ‘Dog Whisperer’s’ dogs bite.. again: The Incidents – Part I
- Claire G on Dominance: Empathy, Cooperation, Fairness and Reciprocity in Animals?
- Dominique on People, animals and values in a complex country
- Claire G on Other-blaming and collateral damage
- Stanley de Jager on Local Dog Whisperer: Rehabilitation isn’t ‘cure’ – Part 3
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Back in the saddle, as it were..
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