Before You Watch
Think about these questions:
a) Can cats hear well?
c) Do cats remember things?
d) How many different sounds can cats make?
f) Are cats the most popular pets in your country?
Now watch the slide show below and answer the questions.
VIdeo/Slideshow
True or False
True or false? You can check your answers at the end:
a) cats have excellent hearing.
b) cats can hear in all directions.
c) cats have fourteen whiskers..
d) a dog has an excellent memory.
e) cats, giraffes and dogs all walk in the same way.
f) dogs are the most popular pets in the USA.
g) parakeets are the least popular pets in the USA.
Now watch the slideshow again. Then check your answers below.
Vocabulary
Fun Cat Facts
Answers
Answers &
Transcript
a) true b) true c)
false ('four rows of whiskers') d) false e)
false (camels not dogs).
f) false g) false (3rd most popular).
Transcript
Cats
have amazing hearing ability. A cat's ear has
30 muscles (human ears only have six muscles).
These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so the cat
can hear in all directions without moving its
head.
A cat has four rows of whiskers.
Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests show
that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5
minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours.
This is more even that of a monkey and an
orangutan.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds,
while dogs only have about ten.
Cats step with both left legs, then both right
legs when they walk or run. The only other
animals to do this are the giraffe and the
camel.
Cats, not dogs, are
the most common pets in America. There are
approximately 66 million cats to 58 million
dogs, with Parakeets a distant third at 14
million.
