Cats Lap With Just Tip of the Tongue, Engineers Find - NYTimes.com

Cats Lap With Just Tip of the Tongue, Engineers Find - NYTimes.com: "It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose.
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A Study of Cat Lapping
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Cats lap water so fast that the human eye cannot follow what is happening, which is why the trick had apparently escaped attention until now. With the use of high-speed photography, the neatness of the feline solution has been captured."