A Michael Broad Blog
As stated in the infographic, ultimately this is about sentience. I think it is useful to remind ourselves that cats are sentient creatures with emotions. They are very sensitive to the ambience in the home, our behaviour and how we direct our behaviour towards them. I need to remind myself that we owe a …
A recent study reports that minke whales have ultrasonic hearing. The study revealed that whales’ auditory brainstems respond to ultrasonic sounds which are beyond those the human ear can detect at frequencies as high as 45-90 kHz. This is a much broader range of hearing than previously believed based on whale ear anatomy and …
The infographic summarises the meaning of cat meowing. It is a demand learned from the cat’s relationship with human caregivers and in line with their behavior in the kitten-mother relationship which entails communication through meowing; a behaviour that is rarely seen in adult cat communication, one to the other. What does my cat’s meowing …
A Russian cat owner puts a book on her head and her cat makes the weirdest sound imaginable. This is a video from Russia’s version of YouTube. You can’t see the cat’s owner but I have seen her in another similar video and she can get her cat to make these weird sounds by …
People are very familiar with the distinctive and iconic appearance of the sabretooth tiger and other species of sabertooths, which became extinct about 10,000 years ago. They were slightly smaller than today’s biggest lions and tigers and the question being discussed here is whether they roared like a lion. A study from North Carolina …
This cute tabby subadult really does bark! It is a bit surprising to see it happen as described in the title to the video on Twitter X. But it is unsurprising when we are told that he/she was raised by a dog, I am guessing, among puppies. RELATED: 3 sounds that a domestic cat …
The domestic cat purr has been discussed at great length in Internet articles and in scientific studies. We all know about it and enjoy it. Some wild cats also purr such as the cheetah, bobcat, puma, ocelot for example. Their purrs are stronger than that of the domestic cat. The “big cats”, that famous …
The truly unique “two talking cats” video on YouTube has been seen 103 million times which is unsurprising. Or perhaps it might be fair to say that it’s unique to capture on video cats talking to themselves like this. It possibly happens from time to time but it must be extremely rare. But what …
