Daily Cat Fun Facts

Every domestic cat, tiger, and cheetah carries the same 247-base-pair deletion in the Tas1r2 gene — making sweet taste physically impossible for all felines. Here's the molecular reason why your cat doesn't care about dessert.

That rapid jaw-chattering your cat does at the window? Scientists think it might be acoustic mimicry — wild cats have been caught imitating prey calls to lure animals closer. Here's what we know.