Lying on the couch, completely still, barely willing to move her ears when you talk to her, your cat doesn’t seem to… but she hears you. He even pays attention to what you say to him. But if someone else addressed him in exactly the same words, he would not listen. This is the conclusion of a study by Charlotte de Mouzon, an ethologist at the Ethology Recognition and Development Laboratory (University of Nanterre) and published in the group’s Nature journal. Recognition of animals.
“Previous studydidn’t allow us to show that cat owners changed the way they spoke to their pet.”, explains the scientist. Very often, more than words, cat language features a change in intonation with a higher pitch and a certain melody, a bit like when we talk to babies.
Like dogs, cats seem to bond with the people who care for them every day.
Charlotte de Mouzon, ethologist at the Cognitive and Developmental Ethology Laboratory (University of Nanterre)
“So we wondered if cats were particularly sensitive to this language…
Source: Le Figaro
