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Cat and Bird is a painting by Swiss German painter Paul Klee, created in 1928. It was made when Klee was a teacher at the Bauhaus Dessau. The painting depicts the wide face of a stylized cat with a small bird perched on its forehead. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. [ 1]
Cats hunt small prey, primarily birds and rodents, [135] and are often used as a form of pest control. [136] [137] Other common small creatures, such as lizards and snakes, may also become prey. [138] Cats use two hunting strategies, either stalking prey actively, or waiting in ambush until an animal comes close enough to be captured. [139]
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves ( / ˈeɪviːz / ), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Hybrid of the Abyssinian and Egyptian Mau × leopard cat ( Prionailurus bengalensis) Large. Short. Spotted, marbled, or rosetted. Birman. Developed in France; foundation stock from Burma (Myanmar) [ 11] The original Birman was crossed with the Siamese and the Persian to create the Birman of today. Cobby.
A feral cat with an American Robin.Plate from Forbush (1916). Outdoor cats are the largest human cause of bird mortality. A 2013 study by Scott R. Loss and others of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that free-ranging domestic cats are likely the top human-caused threat to birds and small mammals in the United States, killing an ...
Muscicapa carolinensisLinnaeus, 1766. Turdus felivoxVieillot, 1807. A Gray catbird stands in the grass. The gray catbird ( Dumetella carolinensis ), also spelled grey catbird, is a medium-sized North American and Central American perching bird of the mimid family. It is the only member of the " catbird " genus Dumetella.
Cat Bird (sometimes stylised as Cat Bird!) is a 2017 mobile puzzle-platformer game developed and published by Ryan Carag, under the pseudonym Raiyumi, for Android and iOS.The game revolves around the titular character, a cross between a cat and a bird, who tries to get back to its home planet by travelling through portals at the end of each level.
The picture can be interpreted as a critic by Klee, who shows through denaturation of the birds, that the world technization heist the creatures' self-determination. [81] Other examples from that period are der Goldfisch (The Goldfish) from 1925, Katze und Vogel (Cat and Bird), from 1928, and Hauptweg und Nebenwege (Main Road and Byways) from ...