The cat brain is very interesting. And do you want to know WHY? According to catster.com, there are several things that make the feline brain seem more like 
Stephen Hawking and less like Bugs Bunny. Check out these cat brain facts:
- Even though the cat brain makes up just 0.9 percent of a cat’s total body mass – as compared to a dogs’ brain, which compromise 1.2 percent of their total body mass – when it comes to intelligence, size does NOT matter.
- The cat brain is more complex than the brain of a dog. Cats’ brains have 300 million nerve cells, whereas dogs’ brains have just 160 million!
- Cats seem to have longer short-term memory abilities than dogs and can remember things up to 16 hours later. Dogs? Say good-bye to those precious memories after about five hours!
- Cats are keen observers and learn by watching your every move. Don’t think he can open a cabinet door? Just watch…as he is watching YOU!
- And cats’ brains trump iPads any day of the week. Sure, cats don’t come equipped with Wi-Fi and 4G data access plans, but they have 91,000 gigabytes of data storage space whereas a typical iPad just has 60. An iPad can process 170 million operations per second, but a cat can process 6.1 trillion operations per second! Oh, yeah! Cats rock!
This post first appeared on our sister site myjoyofliving.com
Written by Karen
