Cats and their Senses

• Animal Planet: Cat Guide: Ears and Hearing  - An article that discusses the anatomy of the ear, how it relates to balance, and the condition of deafness in cats.
• Animal Planet: Cat Guide: Eyes and Vision  - Discusses the anatomy of the eye, colorblindness, night vision, and the third eyelid.
• Animal Planet: Cat Guide: Sense of Touch  - Provides information on the cat's sense of touch, using its whiskers and its coat and skin.
• Animal Planet: Cat Guide: Smell and Taste  - Discusses how a cat uses its sense of smell to find food, stay safe, and find a mate and describes the anatomy of the tongue.
• Pet Education: Do Cats See in the Dark?  - Question and answer session describing cats vision.
• Pet Education: Flehming or the Flehman Reaction in Cats  - Question and answer format discussing how cats smell with their mouths open.
• Pet Education: Hearing in Cats  - Question and Answer format discussing hearing in cats.
• Pet Education: How The Sense of Smell Influences the Behavior  - Article showing how the sense of smell influences cats.
• Veterinary Partner: Sense of Smell  - Article describing how cats smell.