How cats lap: Water uptake by Felis catus

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6008, 2010, Pages 1231-1234

  Reis, Pedro M ^a   Jung, Sunghwan ^b   Aristoff, Jeffrey M ^c   Stocker, Roman ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CANID; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FELID; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADHESION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAT; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GRAVITY; LICKING; LIQUID; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; DRINKING; FELIDAE; GRAVITATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; TONGUE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649448617     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1195421     Document Type: Article

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