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The idea that housecats are baby-talking at humans when they meow is based on a misunderstanding.
Yes, it’s true that, amongst themselves, adult housecats generally only vocalise to communicate with kittens, but the particular set of vocalisations that adult cats use to communicate with humans is distinct from, and largely non-overlapping with, the set of vocalisations that they use to communicate with kittens.
Your average adult housecat has anywhere from twenty to fifty distinct vocalisations that are basically only used to communicate with humans.
Cats meowing at humans is less baby-talk and more your cat learning a whole second language.
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Simple explanation of the bills that farmers in India are protesting - in TikTok form!
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star trek tos au where all the uniform boots look like this




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once i was babysitting my neighbor’s 6 year old and she asked me why i was so ugly and without thinking i said “i’m you from the future” and she cried for like 30 minutes
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In my defense your honor I had really good music on and it made me want to do something evil
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Did you know that they had a man holding rob so they wouldn’t fall over cause neither did I
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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)
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Quint Buchholz (German, b. 1957, Stolberg, Germany) - 1: The Cat’s Assembly (Katzenversammlung), 1995 2: Full Moon from the book Nero Corleone by Elke Heidenreich 3: On The Windowsill At Night (Nachts vor dem Fenster), 1995, Mixed Media
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“That line [’I wish I knew how to quit you.’] has moved, it has been mocked, it has been everything in between, but I remember coming out of that scene, off that ridge of the hill, and seeing a number of the crew, some of whom didn’t even know what the movie was about, crying. When I first read that line, I was like, ‘What is that?’ Now I realize that anybody who has loved knows what that feels like. The interesting part of casting us at such a young age was that we didn’t completely understand what we were involved in, and that’s the beauty of the movie as well.” —Jake Gyllenhaal
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