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I think my human might be an idiot (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/cat@lemmy.world
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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Cats just meow to get our attention. Fun fact do you know that meowing is them mimicking the sounds of a baby?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not a human baby (how could they, most cats have never seen a human baby), but as a kitten they meow to their parents to get food etc. So we're their parents now and I guess they never really grew up and became independent.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Cats meow in the same register that human babies cry. They aren't saying that cats are specifically trying to cry like a human baby, but that cats as a species have grown over thousands of years to meow in the same pitches as human babies.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    While I'm still not sure if this is true, there was a very interesting clip I saw to support the evidence, where a tiger enclosure was somehow across the street from a farm's cow enclosure. The tigers had started "mooing" along their edge of the fence in an effort to make the juicy, meat-filled cows feel safe around them.

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