Results tagged “Cats”

They can fly on a new airline just for pets that launched this month called Pet Airways. The planes' interior cabins are appointed with pet carriers instead of seats, and the pets are checked on regularly by flight attendants. Airports offering service on Pet Airways even have pre-flight lounges for dogs and cats to wait in.

Read more about Pet Airways on USA Today's Today in the Skies blog.

Make a cool dog bed or kitty condo for your pet on National Geographic Kids.

As you may already know, cats can really get your attention when they want to. A new study has shown that kitty may even make a special sound to do so! Cats have the ability to combine their usual purr with a whining noise that is similar to the noise an upset human baby makes. This subtle noise may make the cat's owner more likely to feed it rather than ignoring it.




Study leader Karen McComb from the University of Sussex in the U.K. notes that not all cats make this purr-whine noise. Cats are more likely to purr-whine if they're the only cat in the household--possibly because the sound is more likely to be overlooked when there are multiple cats vying for attention. A louder meow could be more effective in multi-cat houses.

Get the story on the cat's purr on National Geographic News.

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Photograph courtesy Wildlife Conservation Society


Conservationists have been trapping snow leopards in Afghanistan--but don't worry, they're using cameras, not cages! To set the camera traps in remote snow leopard territory, the conservationists and park rangers had to travel for a week on horses (or yaks). After setting the traps, they left and waited.

Four out of five camera traps ended up capturing images of the elusive big cats. This is great news for the snow leopards. Due to poaching and humans hunting their prey, there aren't many snow leopards left in Afghanistan. In fact, conservationists have estimated there are only about 100 of the cats living in the country This estimate is largely an educated guess, but conservationists say that the photos mean that there is a chance for the population to recover.

Learn more about the snow leopard photos on National Geographic News.

Watch a video about clouded leopards on National Geographic Kids.

Photograph by Meghan Murphy/National Zoo


Earlier this month, two clouded leopard cubs were born at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia. This is the first successful clouded leopard birth at the center in 16 years!

Mimi Ausland, 12, really loves animals! After visiting a website that donates rice to hungry people, she was inspired to create a similar website to help dogs and cats in animal shelters. When visitors answer a trivia question on Freekibble.com or Freekibblekat.com, they donate 10 pieces of kibble to Mimi's project. Mimi's sites have been a huge hit, and she has been featured in several articles both online and in print.

Mimi is passionate about her work collecting food for shelter animals. "I love helping animals because of how they cannot speak for themselves and people have to speak for them. I also love being able to help them get good healthy food and actually delivering the food myself to our local shelter--and I really like making other people aware that they need our help," she says.







Photograph courtesy Kelly Ausland