Cat anatomy is probably popular because many universities in the United States force their undergraduate Human Anatomy and Human Physiology labs to use cats instead of cadavers. Cadavers are hard to find (particularly if the university doesn't have a medical school - what did you think happened to all those people who donated their bodies to science?), very expensive and come with a long list of rules, whereas embalmed cats purchased from a commercial supplier of embalmed cats... don't. I'd wager that the article is frequently viewed by those who need to brush up before lab practicals and exams. (Personally, my Human Anatomy lab used cadavers but my Human Physiology lab at another university used cats, so I can say with confidence that if you were a human anatomy student who never got to dissect a cadaver, you were cheated.) You may now forget this entire conversation and resume your editing. ;-) KrakatoaKatie08:57, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The most likely reason for its high view counts, according to a chat I had at the London Wiki meetup, is an automated malware program checking to see if it has access to the internet from an infected computer by accessing a pre-programmed page. Serendipodous15:43, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wikistats has the count for every language for the month of April 2013 now. However, a surprising number of languages had artificially high counts for Leonhard Euler that month, and it looks like all of these thousands of hits were occurring on the same day across all languages that have that article. This is obviously something automated and not natural, but what? Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 13:48, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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