1 the cat has become an internet sensation, mystified animal experts [and used up an unknown number of her nine lives] by 2 200 miles home after disappearing on a family road trip eight weeks earlier.
“神猫”霍莉近日走红网络，也令动物学家大惑不解。它在一次家庭驾车游中走失，历时八周徒步200英里返回家中，此时已筋疲力尽。
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how holly, a house cat who rarely ventured outside, managed to make it to back to her hometown from unknown terrain so far away has baffled animal behaviourists.
4 and
5（憔悴）, barely able to stand and too weak to miaow, the cat appeared from nowhere on new year's eve in the back garden of a florida family home.
for six days,
6 mazzola and her children put out food and milk for the nervous animal, eventually
7（哄骗） her inside their house in west palm beach.
they fell in love with the cat, a
tortoiseshell（戴帽色） with
8 black, brown and
9 patterning. but when mrs mazzola took it to the
10, she reluctantly asked if the cat had an implanted microchip that would identify its original owners.
she did. and it turned out her name was holly and that her owners jacob and bonnie richter lived just a mile away.
but what was truly
11 was that they had lost holly two months earlier when she bolted out of their mobile home on a trip to daytona beach – 200 miles north along florida's atlantic coast.
how holly, a house cat who rarely ventured outside, managed to make it to back to her hometown from unknown terrain so far away has baffled animal behaviourists.
it has also turned her into an internet sensation among
12 13 and
14 15 theories about how sights, sounds and smells, an inner compass or some memories of the drive north may have guided her homeward
16.
"it is a complete mystery," said marc bekoff, a university of colorado professor who specialises in animal behaviour. "she may have had some basic sense of direction and then got clues from sights or sounds as she got closer, but the truth is that we have no idea how she got home."
what seems certain, judging from the state of its paws, is that it walked home by road and pavement, rather than somehow
17 a lift or going cross-country. its back feet, the ones that cat use to propel themselves, were
18, rubbed and raw and the claws were worn down to stubs.
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