Apparently the way that cats drink water is actually pretty amazing. In fact the cat "balances the forces of gravity against the forces of inertia" and takes advantage of fluid dynamics with amazing efficiency. Even the big cats like lions and ocelots use this same mechanism.
There may be future uses of this knowledge in the field of "soft robots" with nonmetallic parts.
Read all about it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/11/AR2010111107897.html
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