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The way cats drink is a of science, say scientists. Researchers and cat have wondered for decades how cats up milk so well. Now the secret is . A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used high- video to look at a cat’s drinking technique. The was looked at in slow motion. The camera showed a cat shoots its into the milk in a J shape at speeds of 78 centimeters second. The cat does not the milk into its mouth; the milk simply to its tongue.

We have to wonder why it has so long to uncover this secret. We have been cats for hundreds of years. MIT researcher Pedro Reis also wonders . He said: “It’s amazing how you at something and think, somebody have studied that before. But as with many things in everyday , that is not the .” Reis called the new cat-lapping discovery “one of the excitements of ”. We still have a lot to learn about the animal world. We have even more to learn about the body.

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