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This is an infographic which explains definitively in my opinion why domestic cats purr from a behavioral standpoint. There has to be a reason which encompasses a spectrum of circumstances under which domestic cats...
A lot has been written about the ostensible lack of response by cats to the call of their human caregivers. Well educated cat caregivers know better. News media tends to be a bit lost...
The first task is to agree on the feline sound that we call the yowl. This is a domestic cat sound. There may be some disagreement or confusion over what it is. There is...
Yowling Cat yowling – why do cats yowl and what does it mean? You will see a lot of anecdotal responses to this question but I like to try and be as scientific as...
By “talk like humans” I mean using a proper language but I don’t mean necessarily speaking in one of the many human languages. It’s probably useful to break the answer down into two sections....
Who said that cats cry like babies to get our attention? We know it. Research indicates that domestic cats have developed a baby cry to tweak our maternal and paternal instincts. And this sweet-looking...
One of the most imposing and characteristic sounds of nature is the tiger roar. How do they do it and what is its significance? Picture (thumbnail): by GavinBell (new window). Published under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs...
Some observers are saying that this is remarkable but I don’t think that it is. It is very cute, however. And it is an example of how cats are good observational learners. They learn...
Mountain lion sounds can be similar to those of our domestic cat but judging by the audio files below you might not believe it. Although the mountain lion (also called puma and cougar to...
The origin of the word “meow” is an onomatopoeic representation of the actual sound that domestic cats make, usually when requesting something such as food, albeit that it is a stereotypic representation because the...
In this TikTok video the cat says: “Are you coming?”. How did this happen? Can a domestic cat speak like a human in the English language? It seems highly improbable! Indeed, it is impossible;...
Young caracals can make extraordinary sounds. There is an audio track and a video on this page. The first is from the Reddit.com website. The young caracal makes a laser beam sound. He reminds...
Over the years, there have been several theories as to how cats purr. Of the wild cats, the puma and the clouded leopard can purr, for example, but the big cats can’t. In 1996,...
Why do cats hiss at dogs? I have answered the question in the title. I will expand on it. The domestic cat hiss is very similar to that of the same sound produced by...
I am discussing words which describe the sounds that domestic and wild cats make and which are based on those sounds. An “onomatopoeia” is a word describing a sound and the word itself evokes...
