Usually at night these damn cats cry like babies or maybe their talking to each other but they make the ''Owwww'' 'Owwww'' sounds that are very human like from a baby.
There is one last slightly horrifying thing about cat meows. Researchers have detected a dissonance in some cries, mainly food-getting ones, that is very similar to another cry- the cry of a human baby. Meaning that over time cat meows have evolved to sound like human babies crying so that we physiologically cannot ignore them
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some cats disguise their cries for attention within an otherwise pleasant purr. The result, according to a study published tonight in the journal Current Biology, is a complex "solicitation" purr with a high-frequency element that triggers a sense of urgency in the human brain. Owners find it irritating, but not irritating enough to kick the cat out, and feel driven to respond.
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To understand just how cats vocally manipulate owners, including herself, McComb and her team set up a series of experiments. First they recorded the purrs of 10 cats; some were recorded when a cat was actively soliciting food and others in a non-solicitation setting. Fifty people then listened to the sounds at the same volume. Individuals judged pleading purrs as more urgent and less pleasant than normal purrs. When the researchers played the purrs re-synthesized to exclude the hungry cries, leaving all else the same, the volunteers perceived the purrs as far less urgent.
McComb suggests that cats may be cashing in on human's naturally nurturing response to a baby’s cry. Previous studies have shown the cat’s embedded cry shares a similar frequency.
They do it on purpose because we react more to that frequency (for obvious reasons) they can also purr at that frequency. Cat's are really manipulative tbh.
They're feeding into our natural instincts to take care of a crying baby. Basically it's just them being greedy bastards who don't like to be ignored so they do anything they can to get our attention.
these two troll cats keep coming to my porch (it's my neighbors cats) so they come over to my side every day and start crying like babies and when I open the blinds, I'm like 'Shut the hell up' and they just looking at me like I'm a fool. I leave those fools there to cry like a idiot. I just need it to stop!
Sis, they ain't even my cats... they literally walk there asses to my porch everyday to sleep in my porch and cry like babies at night (all night). It's trollish. I believe it's the devil trying to annoy me.
They do it on purpose because we react more to that frequency (for obvious reasons) they can also purr at that frequency. Cat's are really manipulative tbh.
My cat wakes me up an hour or two every morning before I should even be awake by doing it.
I know what you mean...
