True Facts: Cats’ Killer Senses
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CREDITS:
Thank you to Dr. Alexis Noel at http://www.noel.gatech.edu for allowing me to show her work. Click on the link to see other remarkable work that Dr. Noel has done! Her work on the cat tongue led to work on a better hairbrush!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329053411_Cats_use_hollow_papillae_to_wick_saliva_into_fur
Sweet receptors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2063449/
Pupil shapes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26601232/
MUSIC:
https://soundcloud.com/querflote
Footage used under license from:
Pond5.com
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ZeFrank gives us humor during quarantine. This is how the ZeFrank do.
HAlarious 😶
@Brandon Anglemine too but stupidity, however, is not.
Hell yeah
U look a lil bit like zefrank tbh
You’re still in quarentine!?
Cat watches mouse run around it.
Cat: Fate has dealt you a good card sir. Also I cannot be bothered to chase today.
Mouse: 🤨
Toxoplasma gondii?
My grandma’s cat used to do that too. He even once brought a live mouse into the house.
When mice aren’t afraid of your cat, you know that you too have been infected by its mind control.
@bigbaddawg101 my cat brought a mouse in once. turned out the poor thing had an inner ear infection. it left when it was better. cutest little mouse ever though 🐀
“You take my DingDongs away and I’d go a little crazy too”
-Zefrank (2020)
@ninthRing Maybe he likes the texture or oil.
Explain my cat who prefers specific fruit flavours of frozen yogurt!
I know of a cat who loved marshmallows.
@ninthRing haha, annoying but what a great story
@Chaos89P Mine just chews them up, drools a lot & spits them out in irritating locations.
(I jump in the shower before work to learn that someone left a sticky present on my pillow & now it’s in my hair… I couldn’t remove it all in time, so ended up having to hack out a chunk of hair.
Cats: _Can’t live with them, can’t locate a taxidermist who does house calls…_ ; )~ )
ZeFrank is secretly all our favorite uncle who sneaks us the good stuff when the other adults aren’t looking.
And I am proud to be the Auntie who sneaks ZeFrank to my nieces when their parents aren’t around.
Right!?!
I’ll bet he’d be the uncle who would sneak you something even if the adults were looking. And he’d do it with a smile.
The good life advice?
In this case, “Good Stuff” is akin to those animal magazines/books that every child voraciously consumes.
Yet Lions and Tigers would still sit in a Cardboard box like domesticated cats
Caribeancrysis
Unfortunately, nature already tried that. Before the dinosaurs, cockroaches were the size of shoeboxes, spiders and scorpions were as big as cats, dragonflies were the size of seagulls, and millipedes were as long as buses. You would not want to live during that time. Not because of the spiders, but because the thought of giant cockroaches makes me want to commit cockroach genocide.
Cats must be thinking the same about people and their metal boxes on wheels.
@Daniel Kim- You could ride the millibuses to work.
@Daniel Kim I think a bigger problem would be dealing with the constant storms and forest fires. Remember: lots of oxygen.
@Caribeancrysis spiders? as long as there are women screaming about a spider, there will be a man around to kill it
“It’s like the internet, except communicated by pissing all over stuff. It’s basically the internet.”
This is the kind of scientific detail that keeps me coming back.
This is the kind of science we never thought we needed
Technically not wrong.
🎶”I’m drinking beeeer from a bucket in the da-ark…”🎶
and my head’s bobbing to the beat 😀
Thank goodness. I thought he said “pee.”
And this is the second time zeFrank played the clip while I was reading. So far it has been a good day.
It’s good but koalas in the rain is legendary 🤣🤣🤣 I still sing it loudly sometimes. Too damn catchy y’all!
Where can I buy the album?!
Actually learned something from this, I thought my cat was dumb because he can’t find the water that’s infront of him.
I guess that’s a feature..
@This_is_a_Conundrum That will end up with a possibly high water bill. We once had a cat like that. We bought a continuous flow water …contraption?
But later, upgraded to a water flow item that was even easier to use that only flowed when the cats collar got near it. Was about 25 bucks. The battery lasted forever nd the water was sucked back i to the enclosed reservoir. The cat loved it. Made little mess of it, and after the one time purchase of 25 bucks… then it was just a few times a year we replaced the batteries. And then a few times a month we cleaned it all out. It seemed fine… but I just figured it should be cleaned out properly. Once a week or every 2 weeks, even tho it didn’t say this was necessary. Oh it did have a water filtration pouch… but we used the same we used on Keurig machines. After we no longer needed it it, we passed it onto another cat owner and they are still using it.
@This_is_a_Conundrum listen to @gentlechaos
@gentlechaos He will not drink from any container of ANY kind. I have no water bill since I have my own underground well in the backyard. No city water, no water bill. The filtration system cost me a small fortune, but it’s paid for itself at this point. The water tastes so good, I don’t think I’ll ever move. Seriously though, I’ve stopped buying bottled water and the filtration upkeep and testing doesn’t cost much.
I literally thought this too! My poor cat sticks his nose in the water by accident all the time.
I put ice on my cats bowl so it will be cool but now she demands it and only licks the ice. Doesn’t help she only has one eye
Finally, someone is sponsoring this great man….ZeFrank!
Wasn’t he sponsored by raycon before?
Et Al is the best scientist, he’s on all the papers
he’s even on my advisor’s papers and very soon on mine. I don’t even know him, how does he do that?
@Kathryn Hawkins It means * and others *. It’s used pretty much in any official papers where you would need to list more than 3 persons.
Credit where credit’s due!
Et Al really is the best in their field, like how Ft. is the best rapper 😍
I laughed way too hard at this joke and no one around me got it so I had to explain.
I learned more about cat tongues than I expected to today.
The tongue comb!
Next cat vid will cover the other opening.
They make your balls smooth as 🥚….
I was impressed by the detail. It’s like all those Dunning-Kruger effect people who think they know everything about a topic until you actually deep dive into it. There’s stuff there I had no idea about. All I knew was that their tongues were good for cleaning themselves.
But surprisingly no facts about barbed cat penises. Missed opportunity. Someone other than Jerry must be writing.
Man, that Et Al person sure gets around.
“It looks like a little pimple. I kinda wanna pop it.”
*ZeFrank NO*
That was too much for me.
Why do I feel the same XD
*ZeFrank YES*
My third nipple looks like a pimple. Actually popped it once. Will not do that again.
@SewardWriter OUCH OMG
….. wait. my cat wasn’t grooming me when he licked my skin raw, he was eating me?
No. That was the original topic of the research but it’s not what was discovered.
Well, maybe a little bit…
using you as a salt lick.
Nah mate. Just taste testing first.
Hon you need to listen to the video.
Zefrank’s voice is the only reason I’ll sit through a sponsor reading.
IKR? I’d sit through the Peoria phone book if he were reading.
Yup. On 95% of the other channels I subscribe to, the sponsored readings get right-arrow’d through. The ZeFrank narrative is worth listening to, regardless of what’s being presented.
The voice and his interesting and funny commentary. This man can literally make even ‘reading the news’ sound funny.
*Y E S👏*
This is Ze’s way of letting certain people know: YOUR CAT IS A CARNIVORE, DO NOT FORCE IT TO BE VEGETARIAN!!!!!
@Anna Marie Any source on this? Re: digestion?
@Journey Rivenburgh Advising people to stop fat shaming their cat seems like an odd conclusion to reach, why not advise them to solve the problem entirely and stop overfeeding their cats.
What if my cat preferd to eat pasta?
@Dr. M. H. Did you miss the part in their original comment that said literally exactly that?
@clray123 You’re half right. Taurine can be synthesized. _Most_ of the other amino acids cats need can be synthesized.
That’s not the problem, though. The problem is that we’re dealing with a very short and inefficient digestive system relative to body weight. It’s an incredibly specialized system, almost the same way pandas are a specialized system.
Felines are the planet’s only true carnivorous mammals, and their digestive system works differently than ours does. As the video said, they can process and digest amounts of fat (and cholesterol, and sodium, and calcium, and a whole bunch of other things) that would kill us before 30 if we tried (of course, all relative to body weight. We’re larger than house cats, so what we consider a small amount of sodium is a lot for their systems).
However, because their system is so much shorter and so much more inefficient, literally all plasma and blood tests done in clinical trials and experiments with cats have shown that our synthesized products, which our own bodies can process just fine, are passing untouched all the way through cats’ bodies.
This is an issue that zoos, wildlife reserves, nature preserves, etc. have been researching for years and years. If synthetic amino acids and nutrients were remotely viable options, it would cut the cost of feeding large cats by a hefty amount, and allow for more exact nutrition monitoring in aging or ill cats.
But we aren’t there yet. And further, just as their inability to taste sweet is irreversible, so is this specialization of their digestive system. We can’t undo it or breed them to tolerate omnivore diets over time. At our current level of science and technology, it’s utterly impossible.
Cats cannot thrive on vegan/vegetarian diets. Worst case scenario, it’ll kill them painfully in 6 months. Best case scenario, it’ll shorten their lifespan by a few years.
Humans can thrive and be completely healthy on a vegan/vegetarian diet. Cats cannot.
Can we get a vid on clams to findout what zefrank has against clams
They know what they did!
Clams are stupid.
Would be awesome if he got footage of the clams from spongebob singing and added it to the video 🤣
We most definitely need the rest of the “Beer from a bucket in the dark” song. It shows promise 🙂
I second that motion!
I thought it was ‘pee’ i was like wow
We need an album
“Martin Banks…and Et Al, who’s like the best scientist. He’s on all the papers.”
How do you just say this like it’s not the best thing ever said 🤣
I think I went to high school with Et! He’s a great guy. All the Al brothers are.
That’s how zefrank do
I am honestly shocked that cats having barbed penises wasn’t even brought up once.
Maybe there’s a part 2? This one is about cat senses.
But if it really is about cat senses – then what about the sensation of a barbed cat penis?
I see myself out, thank you.
Virtually every night, I listen to the sounds of female cats singing the praises of “barbed cat penises”. The sound is… mellifluous. About what you would expect from a female enjoying the repeated thrusts of a barbed penis.