how many muscles do cats have in each ear

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Cats have 32 muscles in each ear. These muscles allow cats to rotate their ears up to 180 degrees independently, enabling them to precisely locate sounds and express a wide range of moods and emotions through ear positioning

. This complex muscle structure is much more developed than in humans, who have only six muscles in the outer ear, and even surpasses dogs, which have 18 ear muscles