#catsanddogs
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 次观看 • 4 天前
