Sunday, May 2, 2010

Skeleton

A cat's skeleton is what most people think it looks like. The spine runs from the skull to the pelvis (hip) which is connected to the spine-like tail. As for a cat with a cat with no tail, the pelvis wouldn't be attached to a tail. As for a cat with a short tail, it would be the same thing but shorter. A cat's ribs would have 26 in all but 13 on each side. The shoulder blade is very much like ours but on a cat. The humerus, connected to the shoulder blade, will move down toward the stomach while the lower arm (the ulna and radius) along with the rest of leg (wrist and paw). The skull is an oval shape if the cat is looking down. The hind leg is connected to the pelvis and works just like the front leg except the humerus is the femur, the ulna is the fibula, the radius is the tibia, and it bends the opposite way. In all a long tailed house cat would have 244 bones. That's 40 more bones than a person. WOW!

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting information.

    My question is; does a cat's tail have bones or is it muscle?

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