Siamese Cat

Kingdom: Animalia

• multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells

• rely on other organisms for nourishment

• ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity

• have their own means of locomotion

Phylum: Chordata

• bilaterally symmetrical bodies (they right and left side of  body are a mirror image of each other.)

• at some point  of the life cycle they have apair of gills or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment

• have a notochord at some phase of their life cycle

• members often have a head, tail and a digestive system with openings at both ends of their body.

Class: Mammalia

• conceive their young within the reproductive tract of the mother

• nourish young with milk produced by the mothers mammary glands

• are hterodonts

• are endothermic

• they have hair and sweat glands

• they have a 4 chambered heart

• they have a complex nervous system

• they have large brains

Order: Carnivora

• Most members are known for their enlarged 4 upper teeth called premolar and first lower molar, which form a shear for cutting meat and tendon.

• Medium sized animals.

• Acute senses, good vision and hearing, large brains, excellent runners, and has a powering jaw

Family: Felidae

• Good hunters

• Short rostrum, a vestigal or absent baculum , retractable claws

• Relaxed position so they can reach certain parts of there body

• The skulls have bullae that are large and divided by a septum; no alisphenoid canal, and paroccipital processes

Genius: Felis

• The average height- 8-10 inches

• Long powerful bodies

• Triangular ears

• Rotate rapidly

• The tail is an extention of a cats backbone

• Cats are very balanced

Species: Felis silvestris

• Quite social with humans due to domestication

• They respond to speech, and humans believe that cats enjoy human compainionship

References: http://community.webshots.com/photo/4369858/4369976twhVzJoErd

1/10/00 Animal Diversity

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/felis/f._silvestris$narrative.html

12/13/00 Web Shots

Poem:

Cats are very friendly, and cute

They have different colors

Sometimes they have boots

They purr when they are happy, and proud

They are nice and cuddible

It sounds like they meowed