French felines found to be less responsive to cat calls with faster attraction to visual cues

Researchers Charlotte de Mouzon and Gérard Leboucher of the Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement, Université Paris Nanterre in France, have examined preferred feline etiquette when faced with an unfamiliar human. In the paper, “Multimodal Communication in the Human–Cat Relationship: A Pilot Study,” published in Animals, researchers examined four modes of human interactions—vocal, visual, bimodal and a no communication control—with a dozen cats living in cat cafés.


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Source: Phys.org