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Puppy eyes, according to your cat Your dog's best trick doesn't work on everyone. Dogs have a small muscle that lifts the inner eyebrow, and they use it more when a person is looking at them. Cats can read an unbroken stare as a threat, and a slow blink is how they soften it. They blink back at people who slow-blink at them, and come closer. Try it on your cat tonight: look, blink slowly, and wait. What would you name these two? Dog first, cat second. Sources: Kaminski et al. 2017, Scientific Reports: dogs' facial movements increase when a human is attending to them. Kaminski et al. 2019, PNAS: evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs. Humphrey et al. 2020, Scientific Reports: the role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat-human communication. #cats #dogs #catsanddogs #slowblink #loaflogic
loafy272,700 views • 4 days ago
Why your cat only meows at you It's a private line. You're the only number she has. Grown cats mostly stop meowing at each other. With other cats they talk with tails and noses: tail up, a quick nose touch. The meow is mostly for people. In one small study, about four in ten owners could tell what their own cat's meows meant, and nobody could do it for an unfamiliar cat. So at 5 a.m., she knows exactly who to call. New Shorts every week. Hand-built and rigged 3D. The AI label is for my cloned narration of my own voice. Sources: Ellis, Swindell and Burman (2015), owners classifying familiar and unfamiliar cats' meows, Anthrozoos. Nicastro and Owren (2003), classification of cat vocalizations by human listeners, J Comp Psychol. Cafazzo and Natoli (2009), the social function of tail up in the domestic cat, Behav Processes. #loaflogic #cats #catbehavior #catsoftiktok #petscience
loafy20,400 views • 1 day ago
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