cat

"cat" Photo Nelson Afonso

The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) is a small carnivorous mammal. It is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to destroy vermin. A skilled predator, the cat is known to hunt over 1,000 species for food. The cat is intelligent and can be trained to obey simple commands; individual cats have also been known to learn to manipulate simple mechanisms (see cat intelligence). Cats use more than one hundred vocalizations and types of body language for communication, including mewing ("meow" or "miaow"), purring, hissing, growling, chirping, clicking, and grunting.[1] Cats have even been observed mimicking the calls of birds.