Walter Murch

If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.

American Editor

Tippi Hedren

We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.

American Actress

Michael Dirda

My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.

American Critic

Erica Jong

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

American Novelist

James Thurber

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

American Author

Cynthia Leitich Smith

I'm fond of my werecats, if only because I have four real-world felines staring at me as I type.

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Artist

Robert Byrne

While predominantly associated with house cats, 'feline' extends to lions, leopards, and other large wild cats.

Beyond Cats

Used metaphorically, 'feline' can describe someone with cat-like qualities, such as grace or independence.

Metaphorical Use

'Feline' often refers to physical traits or behaviors like stealth, agility, or quietness.

Physical Traits

'Feline' includes both domesticated cats and untamed, wild species within the cat family.

Wild and Domestic

In biology, 'feline' is used to classify and describe animals that are part of the Felidae family.

Biological Context

'Feline' can evoke the symbolism cats hold in various cultures, such as mystery or good luck.

Cultural Symbolism

 and prey for larger carnivores. As both predator and prey, survival of their species depended on crucial instinctual behaviors which we still observe in wild and domestic cats today. While the feline actions of your house cat Grizmo might seem perplexing, in the wild, these same behaviors,

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 attempting to join us via satellite so we'll hopefully be hearing from them as well it's big cat week at National Geographic and today we're talking about the endangered felines with the people that are raising awareness to conserve them and are doing things to protect

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 that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.

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 and made them into peaceable felines. And even antidepressants were first tested in rabbits. Today, however, we are not just giving these drugs to other animals as test subjects, but they're giving them these drugs as patients,

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 form of a human who's holding two dragons that have feline heads cat's heads on the big fangs and this one P is sort of is iconic of the whole worldview of ancient Peru with humans and the animals and the transformation and you

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 feline wonder always drive very slowly yesterday she was so camouflaged she could almost drive over if you're not careful obviously she would move beforehand but you don't want to influence the cat's in any way so we're

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 Strangest of all, they're actually attracted to feline urine, which probably makes them more likely to cross paths with a cat and help the parasite complete its life cycle. How does the parasite pull this off?

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 I am a professional animal rescuer and I'm a humane educator I specialize in saving the lives of the tiniest and most vulnerable felines I am so happy to be joined by all of you guys today on

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 felines are spotted surprisingly close to local villages the team searches the country seeking clues to help them understand the cats changing range they deploy traps in

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 the Amazon jungle in another part of the world the throne of the big cat belongs to a feline adorned with different