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Four-eared Cats
In my ever-expanding search to provide information that you, the reader, might find interesting, I ran across an interesting story yesterday on Four-Eared Cats. At first, four-eared cats were thought to be totally unique. Now we know that they are just extremely rare.
Probably still doesn't come when you call him
We all know about the zero-tailed cat, or Manx, but I've never heard of a four-eared cat. Which led me to the natural question of: Is there such a thing as a two-tailed cat? Seems like a two-tailed cat would be pretty cool -- able to climb around on trees upside down, jump on mice backwards with a flip, and all sorts of other neat stuff.
Google is a wonderful thing, and very quickly I found a site dedicated to Polycadual Cats. Alas, having more than one tail does not give cats the super powers I expected, and in fact is just a waste of extra tails.
Not as cool as you might think
Of course, it can't end there.
What about four-eared people? Turns out that yes, there are four-eared people. It's part of a syndrome called, well, four-ears. The extra earlobes grow beneath the regular ears, but there are no ear canals.
We all know about four-eyed people, so I won't go there. The question that must be answered, of course, is the existence of two-tailed people.
Google says no. There are no two-tailed people. Plenty of two-faced people, but no two-tailed ones.
Hey -- this is important stuff. One day you may be asked this on a science test, or as part of your driver's license exam or something. I'm not making any of this up. This might end up on an episode of Wild Kingdom, or Man versus Wild or something.
Like everything else, it is bound to happen. And once it occurs somebody has to come up with a name. I suggest calling this the triple-hiney syndrome (THS). Another good name might be butts-a-lot. Or Bi-anus-ism. Stereo Analism.
Somebody has to think this stuff up.
Finally, MSNBC is reporting that scientists have found a little tree shrew that spends its entire life getting loaded.
This is why when you go to bars you see so many tree shrews
UPDATE: As it turns out, two-tailed cats are being bred to some degree in captivity, but all the cat breeders are determined that there will never be a two-tailed cat like there is a no-tailed cat.
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