Hello to everyone. I'm a student and I live in a dormitory. every day that I go to dormitory's cafeteria, I see different and amazing behavior from Cats. for example, one day I saw, one cat that was napping and Suddenly a dog approached him, then, he got up and started to running with the utmost speed for about 1 Min, maybe more. and this question made in my mind that how it's possible one Cat without Warming up and with low heart rate, have started running to almost speed, It also for 1 minute. do the cats have More explosive energy system than Pcr (phosphocreatine)? or Do they have a produce low lactic Acid in their muscles? or they have a Stronger Buffering system with High capacity?
Whats your idea?
Hello Amirhosein.
I´m also a student from Universidad de Guanajuato and currently I´m studying Veterinary. I found your question very interesting because cats are one of my favorites species. I´m not sure about the physiology of acute stress, but what a know is that cats, domestic cats developed a instinct of flight, as they are prey of dog, human and even other cats. The sympathetic system of cats allow them to use those mechanisms, muscle contraction in acute stress is caused by the neurotransmitters of this sympathetic system, also increase the electric transmission for the heart to pump faster. Some literature indicates that this neurotransmitters last from 30 seconds until 5 minutes. What I though is, based on the prey life, they have developed some mechanisms which helps them to activate the flight mechanism better than other species as dogs, and make them to avoid those problem as the lack of oxygen in high demanded muscular contraction (as you said about lactic acid).
Hope this help you in your understanding of cats. :)
Moises Eli Martinez Colin Thank you so much for your explanation, i used of them.
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