CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cat fanciers everywhere appreciate the gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance of their feline friends. But do they know those traits extend even to the way cats lap milk?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cat's delicate lapping does not scoop up water but uses inertia to create kind of a backward waterfall, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. Their study is more than a ...

Big Or Small, It's The Same Physics: A lion drinks by touching its tongue to the water surface and then drawing it up rapidly. That forms a small column of water in the air the cat can catch in its ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American IF YOU LIVE WITH A DOG, then you are familiar ...