Ever wonder why your cats tongue feels so rough? It looks like this.
You’re looking at a 3 mm-wide section of a cat tongue more than a century old. David Linstead’s captivating image was a winner in the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards, run by the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity in London.
The serrated ridge may be the most intriguing aspect of this picture. Those rough bumps, or papillae, are the reason that a kitty’s tongue feels like sandpaper when it licks you. When a cat grooms herself, the papillae act like a comb to remove dirt and loose hair. But they also serve a grislier purpose: rasping meat off of bones.
[Image by David Linstead]
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@jellywholockian submitted: We should buy this for Lestat XD
When Lestat gives his name at Starbucks occasionally they’ll get it right but most of the time it’s stuff like “Lester” “Leslie” “Leshan” and on one occasion he spent the night in a huff because they gave him a cup that just said “La Shat”
when u scratch a cat’s chin and they lift their head up reblog if u agree
“Two male lions are spotted ‘mating’ in Botswana safari park” [X]
“…pair had pushed out the resident males earlier in the year and that they showed no interest in the lioness”
Deacon batting at the computer screen trying to catch the mouse cursor when Stu was demonstrating a computer made me realise that the vampires are basically cats. Enemies to dogs/werewolves, stringent but confusing standards of hygiene and grooming, primarily nocturnal, thrive off human blood, etc – would chasing a laser pointer be that unlikely?
Look, there’s only so much you can really do for fun when the power goes out and the weather outside sucks and Deacon’s an easy target ok
Every time I see people like “cats are evil and will never love you” I’m like bro cats are adorable losers, they rub against you and head butt into your hand when you pet them and they make a dumb vibrating noise when they’re happy and chase after moving lights and shoelaces and tuck their feet under their bodies to become a fucking cat loaf cats are great ok.
I was going to listen to the IWTV soundtrack while in the shower, and had it playing on my computer which was on the counter, and as I began to undress I just saw that one piercing eye staring at me and was just like “nope, you’re not going to watch me shower,” and I quickly turned the computer around.
#so inappropriate Lestat #very bad boy #*smacks with rolled-up magazine* #NO #that is NOT how we treat our friends #lestat
#sprays with holy water [fanart by @mortcharmant]
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