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A feline litter usually consists of two to five kittens, [3] but litters with one to more than ten are known. [4] Kittens are typically born after a gestation lasting between 64 and 67 days, with an average length of 66 days. [3] When they are born, kittens emerge in a sac called the amnion, which is bitten off and eaten by the mother cat. [5]
These facts about kittens will help you become an expert on one of the world's cutest and cuddliest baby animals.
The kittens had abnormally small ocular dominance columns (part of the brain that processes sight) connected to the closed eye, and abnormally large, wide columns connected to the open eye. Because the critical period time had elapsed, it would be impossible for the kittens to alter and develop vision in the closed eye.
Extremely precocial species are called "superprecocial". Examples are the megapode birds, which have full-flight feathers at hatching and which, in some species, can fly on the same day. [3] Enantiornithes [4] and pterosaurs [citation needed] were also capable of flight soon after hatching.
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Cats have one of the broadest ranges of hearing among mammals. [11] Humans and cats have a similar range of hearing on the low end of the scale, but cats can hear much higher-pitched sounds, up to 64 kHz, which is 1.6 octaves above the range of a human, and 1 octave above the range of a dog.
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The female raises the young alone. One to six, but usually two to four, kittens are born in April or May, after roughly 60 to 70 days of gestation. Sometimes, a second litter is born as late as September. The female generally gives birth in an enclosed space, usually a small cave or hollow log. The young open their eyes by the ninth or tenth day.