What's Behind Your Cat's Whiskers?
Why is your cat's whiskers so important? Some facts about the most elaborate mustache in the world:
- A cat's whiskers have about 8-13 hairs on each side
- The mustache hairs are three times thicker than normal fur hair and are hard and rough and are also called sense hairs
- The cat's whiskers are very sensitive and rich in nerves around its root that serve as sensors to transmit information that reaches the brain and thus the cat deciphers the information about its environment
- The hair follicle is driven by muscles which allows the cat's whiskers to move in different directions.
- The whisker hair, also called the cat's whisker sense hair, can pick up information of very small changes in the air around it, of temperature and air pressure
- The mustache is what makes your cat, no matter how innocent, a successful hunter. The whisker hairs can warn of prey long before the cat notices it and they even convey to the cat information about the condition of the prey based on its breathing: calm = not yet aware of the cat's existence, stressed = about to be experienced, not breathing = someone handled it before me...
- The length of the whiskers varies according to the size of the cat and with its help the cat knows if it will be able to pass through narrow places and get out of them without getting into trouble. Due to this feature, the ratio of the length of the whiskers to the width of the cat's body never changes, although cats that are too fat can lose their accuracy
Thanks to the cat's genetic code, the ratio of the length of the whiskers to the width of the cat's body never changes, but fat cats can lose their ability to distinguish - Never, but never cut your cat's mustache, otherwise you will harm all those important qualities that your cat depends on - Samson the hero we already said 😊
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