• LemmyLogin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Domesticated cats meow much more than wild ones do, since they’ve learned to do it for us. Cat mothers chirp to their kittens. So while yes, they do, the tweet is right; cats meow to get our attention, and they meow at about the same frequency as babies.

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      5 months ago

      The incorrect part about the tweet is that they do it to mimic human infants. They do not. They learned that humans love a little meow meow and it gets them attention, it’s confidential that it’s similar to babies

      My friend had a cat whose meow sounded like an elderly pack-a-day smoker.