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ZeroCool@feddit.ch to cats@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Cats have nearly 300 different facial expressions says US study

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Cats have nearly 300 different facial expressions says US study

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ZeroCool@feddit.ch to cats@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Did you know that cats have around 279 different facial expressions?! Find out more below...
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      I love the face they make when they smell something weird

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        The Jacobson’s response! I love it when they do that.

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      Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of hair in wafer thin layers that cover my body. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.

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        Good luck trying to carve anything smaller than an ångstrom.

        1 ångstrom ≈ the width of a hydrogen atom

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          Woosh

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      And the variety of awkward stares when you laugh!

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    They do b having faces fr

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      Cats are real, fax

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      nocap

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      but no eyebrows to show what they mean

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    And most of them translate to some variation of “I want food” and “where is my food” and “Soon, I will require food.”

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      My cat doesn’t really care that much about food. Maybe it’s not normal, I don’t know. But he is much more concerned with the humans around him and food is more of a tertiary thing - after being around his favourite humans and comfort places

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        Same with mine. Unlike most dogs, cats usually stop eating when they’re full and don’t care about food until they get hungry again. The faces and gestures he makes out of affection though… just the cutest thing ever.

        Cats get a lot of shit for being self-centered pricks (and most of it is pretty funny), but I feel like it’s important to point out sometimes how loving and affectionate they can be.

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      “Soon, I will require food.”

      I’ve never seen anything to suggest cats understand the concept of “soon”. I think it’s more like “my food stockpile is inadequate, human.”

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          This all happens over the course of ten seconds

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        Look up Billi, the talking cat. They have a pretty good grasp of what “soon” means, which is exactly why they want it “now”.

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    really it is like 100 with ears back, ears up, and ears in airplane mode as multipliers

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    So it seems cats have as many unique facial movements as dogs (to be precise: dogs - 27, cats - 26). Also most of the recorded expressions were friendly.

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    Honestly my cat also has probably 300 different forms of meow. Most of which are either “where have you been”, “put me down”, and “food”

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    I never bothered counting, but there are certainly a lot. My favorite is “smug smile with nearly closed eyes #3”.

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      Idk ours use more than a few.

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      Nah, cats are super expressive - you just actually have to learn what their body language means, instead of assuming it’s the same as ours.

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