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And can they recognize a familiar voice based on intonation and speaking style? We will record different speaking styles from a number of humans. We will play back different melodies and human speaking voices and videotape the cats to see their responses. We will look at ear movements, head movements, body posture, and things like that. See National Geographic readers' pictures of cats. Maybe certain breeds will use certain melodies, or cats living in countries where human speech has certain melodic patterns will vocalize differently.
If we can find that cats adopt these melodies, we may be able to help cat owners interpret these signals better. All rights reserved.
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Go Further. Animals Lemurs sing in unique human-like rhythms. Some cats will thump their tails or quickly move them back and forth as their agitation increases. Some cats may not vocalize at all while others will vocalize with growls, hiss or a screech. A cat that is getting agitated will stiffen his body, straighten his legs, with a tail that is stiff but can be straight or curled.
They overall go from a relaxed posture to one of tension. Some cats will be silent while others will hiss or growl. As they get more agitated, they can quickly go into either an aggressive or angry posture. Cats that take on this defensive posture are responding to a potential attack. A cat will recoil or cower back, ears back and nearly flat against the head, and head withdrawn.
The legs are pulled tight against the body. The facial muscles are tense, often displaying teeth. If the cat is also going offensive, it will appear as described above. The frightened cat shares some similarities to the aggressive cat, depending on the level of fear or anger. Scared cats will arch their backs and the hair on their tail and the back will stand straight up trying to make themselves appear as large as possible.
Other cats will get into a crouching position with their back feet firmly planted ready to run if they need to. Some cats will stick their tails straight up in the air. A cat that is annoyed will flatten his ears and stiffen his body posture. The tip of their tail may begin to switch and they may vocalize into a low growl. They will often withdraw their attention from whatever is annoying them and often move away. If you continue petting your cat when he is annoyed, the next step is a swat or a bite.
Another signal of annoyance in some cats can be urine marking and furniture scratching. The sequence of the predator cat is to stalk, pounce, kill, remove and then eat their prey. They will sometimes shift weight in the rear legs as they get ready for a quick sprint and pounce action. Then the cat pounces, he lifts off with his back feet and pounces on their prey. Once he catches the prey, he quickly kills it with a fatal bite then takes off to a safe location where they do not feel vulnerable and exposed to have their snack.
The angry cat shares many of the same visual cues with the scared cat. They will fluff up and arch their backs to make themselves appear as big as possible. They will often flick their tail tip quickly. Their legs are stiff and tense; ears go from relaxed to flat against their heads. Their eyes are focused and pupils may be narrow. Post-kittenhood, cats may not meow when interacting with each other.
More often than not, they rely on non-verbal body language to express their feelings toward one another. But they do use vocalization as part of their cat communication, which is perhaps most evident during playtime, when your little critters growl, hiss or yowl at each other sometimes in sport, sometimes in fear or sometimes in anger.
In many ways, how cats behave toward us is not much different from the way they communicate with each other: nonverbally. This use of non-verbal communication is effective with humans as well as other cats. Cats are considerably less demonstrative with their affection than dogs, says Bradshaw, but this doesn't mean that cats don't feel strong emotion. They just communicate it differently. Although the field of cat behavior research is sparse in comparison to the many studies conducted on dogs and how pups think, behave, and communicate, it is well documented that cats are smart creatures—but you already knew that!
So, while cats tend to have an independent nature, just know that they are communicating with you — you just may have to pay closer attention to their nonverbal cues to truly understand what she's trying to tell you. Christine O'Brien is a writer, mom, and long-time cat parent whose two Russian Blues rule the house. Her work also appears in Care. Find and follow her on Instagram and Twitter brovelliobrien.
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