Cats – What they are about

Cats have two evolutionary lineages – one is for the “true” cats and the other evolutionary line is the sabre-toothed cats that are extinct now.

Cats are carnivores meaning it is an animal that feeds on other animals.

A famous example of a sabre-tooth cat is a Smilodon cat like Diego, the one we see in Ice Age the movie. The Smilodon (sabre-tooth tigers) were about 1.5 times the size of a lion (1).

Sabre tooth cats are extinct however the clouded leopard cat is the closest we have in the world with the extreme trait of long canine teeth in relation to their body size (2).

The long upper canine teeth of the clouded leopard cat are still a lot smaller compared to the size of the teeth that sabre tooth cats had. Sabre tooth cats were known...

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Vet talk viruses

Corona is the Latin word for wreath, garland, crown, assembly, audience, surrounding army, besiegers. Corona virus resembles a wreath under an electron microscope.

Have you ever seen the movie Contagion? Well that movie explains the spread of diseases especially viruses and what vomitus is and what Patient Zero is.
A virus is not a living cell – a virus is an infectious particle that only has basic parts – it has something to hold everything inside (Capsule) with some DNA or RNA inside of it...

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