• Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 hour ago

    I don’t think they sound particularly like a human baby because I can’t stand the sound of a human baby crying but when my cat talks I melt into a useless gibbering idiot food dispenser.

  • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    3 hours ago

    Incidentally I don’t think this is actually evolution; more learned behavior. They repeat the tone we respond to the most. My cat also bites my foot when he wants attention because he has learned that it’s hard for me to ignore.

    • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      44 minutes ago

      They repeat the tone we respond to the most.

      I once had a cat that learned to imitate my text message notification sound (at the time it was Tiny Tina saying “pooow”) just to get my attention. He would also scream his lungs out if he thought no one was home.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 hours ago

      Cats were perfectly positioned to coexist with humans - they eat the pests that feed on our grain, aren’t large enough to be much of a threat, aren’t a good food source, and are soft and nice to pet. Explains why they self-domesticated more than once in different parts of the world!