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Post by Ten on Jul 7, 2009 17:02:09 GMT -5
"He was named with the whisker part because of how well balanced he is."
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I know tails provide balance. How do whiskers?
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Post by sie on Jul 7, 2009 18:43:39 GMT -5
"Richly supplied with nerve endings, whiskers give cats extraordinarily detailed information about air movements, air pressure and anything they touch. The scientific word for whiskers is vibrissae, a name that suggests their exquisite sensitivity to vibrations in air currents. As air swirls and eddies around objects, whiskers vibrate too.Cats use messages in these vibrations to sense the presence, size, and shape of obstacles without seeing or touching them. Whiskers are also good hunting tools. A cat whose whiskers have been damaged may bite the wrong part of a mouse it's attacking, indicating that signals from these delicate structures provide cats with vital information about the shape and activity of its prey." I got this info here. |
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Post by Ten on Jul 7, 2009 18:47:02 GMT -5
So what does that have to do with balance?
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Post by sie on Jul 7, 2009 19:01:36 GMT -5
"Detailed information about air movements"
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That's one. Plus whiskers act as a cat's Equilibrium.
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Post by Ten on Jul 7, 2009 21:21:32 GMT -5
"That's one."
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So they know which way the wind is blowing and if something around them has moved. That's not balance.
"Plus whiskers act as a cat's Equilibrium."
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Where does it say that?
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Post by sie on Jul 7, 2009 23:35:14 GMT -5
Wait so I can't just say he is CricketWHISKER just because of his long whiskers??
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Post by Ten on Jul 7, 2009 23:40:08 GMT -5
He was named Cricketkit for his long appendages, no? And he has long whiskers because of those, no? So wouldn't that be redundant to give him whisker as a suffix because of his whisker length?
"Cricketwisker's mother was Tinystone, a small grey tabby," <-- period
"Both of his parents are decease." <-- deceased
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Post by sie on Jul 9, 2009 0:27:54 GMT -5
So do I have to change the name???
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Post by Ten on Jul 9, 2009 8:44:42 GMT -5
No, you have to make whatever name he has make sense.
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Post by sie on Jul 9, 2009 17:05:55 GMT -5
Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that as a kit he had a very chirpy mew and also had a rather long jump, like I said though, those are very unlikely.
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