Me-usings and Me-emories
12 January 2014 - A picture just would not have conveyed the nuances of my fifth appendage. I am referring to my tail and its surprising expressiveness. Observant peeps that have spent sufficient time with my kind know that a great deal of our feelings, from rage to rapture, can be discerned by watching the tail: if it is raised, we are sending a friendly greeting; switching, warning of our sour mood; trembling (as pictured in the video), acknowledging the adulation. It is also a mechanism for signalling our place in society, as subordinates raise their tails more frequently than dominants. The average length of our tail is approximately 12 inches, or more than 65% of our body length. It might surprise you to know that 1) the number of vertebrae making up our tails varies among the species, and 2) the tail serves little or no role in our "righting reflex", so a tailless breed such as the Manx can still land on its feet.
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| methodology of the meow-stro |
Today's Catechism
(for the self-taught)
The socially adept can speak
as well as read body language.
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| Bring back Bastet |
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| Bastet beckons |
Catty Corner
phrase of the day - "happy tails to you, until we meet again", a rough translation of a cat's farewell
Catty Corner
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