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  Figures   1: Brehm, Alfred Edmund (1864);
 
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Cats have spread as a domestic animal mostly due to the appearance of rats, these abominable and pestilent nocturnal beings.

In civilised countries, house cats are the only animals of their kind to be usually domesticated and kept at home. Nevertheless, every cat maintains a certain degree of autonomy and complies with humans only in so far as it pleases.

Amongst cats’ senses, that of touch, sight and hearing are the most distinguished. The worst is probably the sense of smell (…)

Cats’ character is in most cases completely misapprehended.
  Source: Brehm, Alfred Edmund. 1864. Illustrirtes Thierleben: eine allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. Erster Band. Erste Abtheilung: Die Säugethiere. Erste Hälfte: Affen und Halbaffen, Flatterthiere und Raubthiere. view the source
  Related Documents    
  Sites   Hamilton Station, Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory (1953)
Laboratory of Animal Psychology, Harvard University (1914)
Laboratory of Psychology, University of Rochester (1936)
Department of Physiology, University of Leeds (1928)
Physiological Institute, University of Marburg (1887)
Department of Physiology, Cambridge University (1925)
Institute of Physiology, University of Buenos Aires (1930)
Physiological Laboratory, University of Amsterdam (1932)
Institute of Physiology, University of Louvain (1927)
Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania (1926)
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Manitoba (1928)
Department of Physiology, University of Chicago (1931)
Institute of Physiology, University of Belgrade (1930)
Department of Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine (1932)
  Instruments   Operating table for small dogs and cats, bigger model; with head support etc.; 6,180 kg. (1923)
  Experiments  
  Further Reading:   - Abderhalden, Emil. 1898. Die Bestimmung des Hämoglobins im Katzenblute. Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie 24: 545-547
- Kirschmann, August. 1893. Die Parallaxe des indirecten Sehens und die spalförmigen Pupillen der Katze. Philosophische Studien 9: 447-495
- Schultze, E. 1900. Armin Tschermak: Ueber die Folgen der Durchschneidung des Trapezkörpers bei der Katze. Neurologisches Centralblatt (15), 674-685; (16), 731-741. 1899. Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane 23: 225
 
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