Kitten Lovers: Cuteness Overload

[strangerep]

All I could think of was quietly getting into one of those cars and suddenly revving the engine hard.

There must be something wrong with me.

 

[BillTre]

Domesticated cat article in a news article in Science.
Cats have lots of facial expressions:

In a study published this month in Behavioural Processes, researchers tallied 276 different feline facial expressions, used to communicate hostile and friendly intent and everything in between. What’s more, the team found, we humans might be to thank: Our feline friends may have evolved this range of sneers, smiles, and grimaces over the course of their 10,000-year history with us.

The pair discovered a total of 276 distinct facial expressions made toward other cats—not so far removed from the 357 produced by chimpanzees, Florkiewicz says, and well more than many had thought cats capable of. Each expression combined about four of 26 unique facial movements, including parted lips, jaw drops, dilated or constricted pupils, blinks and half blinks, pulled lip corners, nose licks, protracted or retracted whiskers, and/or various ear positions. By comparison, humans have 44 unique facial movements, although researchers are still working out how many different expressions they combine into, Florkiewicz says. Dogs have 27 facial movements, but again, their total number of expressions isn’t known.

In the current study, the duo found that the vast majority of the cats’ expressions were either distinctly friendly (45%) or distinctly aggressive (37%), the scientists say. The remaining 18% were—like the Cheshire Cat’s smile—so ambiguous that they fell into both categories.

 

[skyshrimp]

This is my Bengal

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

Lovely...

Relaxed Kitty Soaks Up the Sun

 

[vela]

 

[DennisN]

Christmas time is fun!

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[DennisN]

The artist and his art:

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

"Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days."
(source: here on X/Twitter)

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[DennisN]

Ok, so you think you are a dedicated meat eater?

Believe me, you are nothing compared to this fellow (@79 s in the clip).

 

[jtbell]

One of the neighborhood cats likes to perch on the railing of our deck.

 

[morrobay]

The seafood market cat

 

[morrobay]

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I wish I had this cats problems

 

[DennisN]

 

[berkeman]

 

[morrobay]

Seafood market cats.

 

[strangerep]

I just became aware of the "Kiffness" channel on youtube...








So clever.

 

[DennisN]

Recharging...

Going boldly where we haven't gone before....

 

[DennisN]

A very funny clip of a model train getting attacked by cats...
These two cats and the restaurant have apparently become an attraction.
(@jtbell etc)

Do you still want to take this train?


Source: A struggling restaurant was saved by the power of cats (BoingBoing)

 

[jtbell]

A very funny clip of a model train getting attacked by cats...

At at least one of the model-train shows I've visited in the past couple of years, I've seen a cat underfoot, but I've never seen one on the actual layouts. The club volunteers who set up and run the layouts take them too seriously for that.

 

[DennisN]

What would happen if cats were big and on aircraft carriers?

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

My gosh, this is so funny:

 

[jtbell]

Today I visited the North Carolina Transportation Museum, not for the first time, and discovered that it now has an official mascot.