VETERINARY researchers have discovered that cats "glow" in the dark, according to a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
Scientists in Australia analysed a museum's collection of dead mammals to see how many glow in the dark with a UV light turned on.
They also tested the glow to see if it was actually fluorescence and not a different phenomenon.
Lead author Kenny Travouillon, a paleontologist and acting curator of ornithology at Western Australian Museum, tested frozen and preserved mammal specimens.
The findings were then sent to Curtin University researchers in Perth for analysis under a range of UV lights.
They found that 125 species had the fluorescent properties that allow them to glow in the dark under a UV light, including the domestic species of cat.
"We report fluorescence for 125 mammal species, from half of all mammalian families and representing almost all clades in the mammalian phylogeny," the scientists wrote.
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