From The New York Times: Cats Drink Using the Tip of the Tongue, Engineers Find
From the article: “It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose.”
Finally, a science article that interested my daughter…

“Um…I drink later. Tired now. Shush, please.”