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Cats Educational Posters, Prints & Charts
for the classroom; theme decor for home and office.
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social studies > animals > CATS | big cats | cats in art < mammals < zoology < biology < science
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Domesticated cats, in the mammalian Order Carnivora, family felidae, are digitgrades, walking on their toes, and have acute hearing, balance and flexibility.
Humans adopted cats, Felis catus, into our lives millenia ago for their skills as predators in protecting stored grains from rodents and vermin destruction.
The ancient Egyptians worshipped the cat goddess Bast of the sun and war, and mummified cats in their death rituals.
Domestic cats have patterned coats such as tuxedo, tabby, smoke, calico, point and tortoiseshell, which are not necessarily dependent on breed.
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• “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.” ~ Rupert Brooke
• “One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
• “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” ~ Jean Cocteau
• “Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” ~ Robertson Davies
• “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” ~ Sigmund Freud
• “It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.” ~ Théophile Gautier
• “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ~ Théophile Gautier
• “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” ~ James Harriot
• “One cat just leads to another.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
• “Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.” ~ Robert Heinlein
• “Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.” ~ Julian Huxley
• “The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
• “If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.” ~ Doris Lessing
• “I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” ~ Lincoln
• “No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
• “When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?” ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
• “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” ~ Eugene O'Neill
• “The Trouble with a kitten is /That / Eventually it becomes a / Cat.” ~ Ogden Nash
• “Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
• “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.” ~ Mark Twain
• “If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
• FYI - Dr. Petrus Andreas Mattioli (1501-1577) was the first to describe an allergic reaction to a cat.
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Feline Skeletal System
Detailed illustration of the animal and its skeletal system is the focus although details of the skeletal system and specific diseases are also illustrated.
• more skeletal system posters
• more animal anatomy posters
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Abyssinian cats have a distinctive “ticked” coat where each hair is lighter at the root and shading darker at the tip, a feature linked to the Ta gene. The word abyssinian refers to Ethiopia, however most stories about the Abyssinian cat refer to Egypt.
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Angora (F. catus angorensis) cats, one of the ancient, naturally-occurring cat breeds, originated in central Turkey, in the Ankara region. Angoras are known for their fluffy white coats but they also come in other colors.
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Birman - the Sacred Cat of Burma - was a companion cat of the Kittah priests. The Birman is not to be confused with Burmese cats, a completely different breed.
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Korats are a slate blue-grey shorthair cats with heart shaped heads and green eyes. Korats originated in Thailand where they are highly esteemed as good luck charms.
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The Maine Coon, noted for its large bone structure, has a long, flowing coat with a bushy tail and tufted ears. The Maine Coon is the state cat of Maine.
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The Manx (F. catus anura) cat has a naturally occurring mutation of the spine that results in a shortened tail. The Manx is from the Isle of Man which is located in the Irish Sea.
FYI - The American Sign Language (ASL) speaking gorilla Koko chose Manx kittens as pets.
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Persian, an old and popular breed of longhaired cat, takes its name from its place of origin, Persia (Iran).
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Petrebalds, bred in Russia, and Sphynx, bred in the US, are considered hairless cats, though the Sphynx is covered with very fine soft hair like peach fuzz.
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Siamese (F. catus siamensis) cats, believed to be descended from sacred temple cats in Siam (Thailand in SE Asia), are now one of most popular breeds in the US.
Folklore tells us the kink in a Siamese cats tail (genetically bred out of most Siamese today) was so the cat could safely keep the princesses' rings while she bathed.
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The term “Rex” refers to cats with curly coats. There are Devon, Cornish, German, Selkirk Rex breeds.
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| The “Cats” pages are dedicated to Frazier, Blackie, Smokey, Mama Cat, Tabby, Aum, Stormy, Sophia, Leo, Winker, Socks & Spots, Ophelia, and the tiny black kitten rescued from the side of a busy trafficway who is learning to “tywdfe;e” (translation: “type”; see digitgrades), just to name a few, who have graced our life. UPDATE: The tiny kitten is how a four-year old who made peace with the dog, will follow us on walks if given the opportunity, and when he misses the walk, runs to meet us. |
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