How do the seven lobes of the cat lung compare with humans?

Answer 1

A cat has 7 lobes of the lung. The right side has 3; the right apical, right cardiac, and right diaphragmatic. The left also has 3; the left apical, left cardiac, and left diaphragmatic. There is one lobe directly in between both sides called the intermediate lobe.

Answer 2

Cats have a left and right lung, just like humans do. Except humans have three lobes in their right lung and only two lobes in their left lung coming out to five lobes total throughout. But for a feline, their lungs consist of seven lobes throughout. With four lobes in the right lung and three lobes in the left lung. I believe this unique structure and number of lobes in the cat compared to the human is because the feline need more, harder, faster breathing mechanisms to process the air throughout the body. And i believe there are more lobes on the right side of the lungs than the left because the heart is on the left and maybe through evolution, more space was needed on the left for the heart, leaving an extra lobe of the lung out.