Without full cheeks, cats, dogs, and many other animals cannot use suction to drink. Instead, these animals press their tongue against a fluid and lift it rapidly to draw up Keep reading
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Why Animals Shake Themselves Dry
For many animals, letting themselves air-dry is not an option. They would become hypothermic before their wet fur dried completely. This is why dogs and many other furry mammals shake Keep reading
Sniffing
In many ways, smell is a strange sense. The very act of sniffing – pulling air and odor molecules into our noses – changes what remains behind in a way Keep reading
How Dogs and Cats Drink
We humans do our hands-free drinking via suction, using the shape of our lips and mouths to create low pressure that draws liquids in. Dogs and cats, on the other Keep reading
How Dogs Drink
This high-speed footage shows how a dog drinks. The dog’s tongue curls backwards, creating a large area of surface contact with the water. When the dog pulls its tongue back Keep reading
Fluids Round-up – 7 September 2013
Lots of great links in this week’s fluids round-up! Scientific American discusses how dogs use adhesion of water to their tongues to drink. We’ve mentioned this previously, as well as how it’s the same Keep reading
How Dogs Drink
Not long ago, researchers showed that cats use friction to their advantage when drawing liquids into their mouths. New research shows that dogs rely on the same mechanism–they’re just far Keep reading