Furry avatars of doom

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Feline face recognition
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2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Feline Facial Recognition Foils Food Filching

Cats are no respecters of personal property, as [Joe Mattioni] learned when one of his cats, [Layla] needed a special prescription diet. Kitty didn’t care for it, and since the other cat, [Fo…
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2025 Pet Hacks Contest: A Water Fountain For Your Cat

Part of the charm of having a cat in your life is that by their nature these animals are very interactive. They will tell you in no uncertain terms when something in their lives needs attention, fo…
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The purrfect gene: Study shows genetic links between cat purring and androgen receptor gene variations

Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis catus is a familiar and comforting presence in our daily lives. Unlike most other feline species, cats exhibit sociality, can live in groups, and communicate both with...
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Cats recognize their owner's scent, study suggests

Cats spend longer sniffing the odor of a stranger than that of their owner, suggesting that they can identify familiar humans based on smell alone, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Yutaro Miyairi and colleagues at Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan.
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Perfect organism.

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Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why

Cats have attained evolutionary perfection
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Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. That's why they're perfect evolutionarily. They don't need variation. They might get bigger or smaller, but they don't change anything else, because they're just right otherwise. They're not jacks-of-all-trades; they're masters of one.

Cats challenge standard biases in evolutionary biology. People have said to me, “What about bats? What about rodents? These groups have so many species doing all kinds of things.” And I'm like, “Yeah, because they suck.” They haven't figured out how to do anything well, so they keep trying different things.
 
Cats with a gene type associated with mixed breeds may purr more at their human companions than those without, according to a new study.
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Scientists found that cats with the short-type androgen receptor gene seemed to show higher owner-assessed purring than those with the long-type gene.
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Male cats with the short-type gene exhibited higher vocalisation towards humans, indicating the gene's connection to vocal communication, according to the study.
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In comparison, female cats with the short-type gene displayed higher stranger-directed aggression.

The results indicate that there is less importance of vocal communication in cats raised by humans since kittenhood, which mostly happen to be pure-breed cats.
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www.independent.co.uk

Why some cats purr more than others finally decoded

Mixed-breed and rescued cats tend to meow more
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This research is also from Japan. It seems like cats are undergoing much scientific study in Japan at the moment.
 
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