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this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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Domesticated cats meow much more than wild ones do, since they’ve learned to do it for us. Cat mothers chirp to their kittens. So while yes, they do, the tweet is right; cats meow to get our attention, and they meow at about the same frequency as babies.
The incorrect part about the tweet is that they do it to mimic human infants. They do not. They learned that humans love a little meow meow and it gets them attention, it's confidential that it's similar to babies
My friend had a cat whose meow sounded like an elderly pack-a-day smoker.
Yeah, this implies that every single cat has heard a baby crying. Clearly this is not the case.
Convergent evolution. Their cries naturally mimic the frequencies of human babies. It's not deliberate, but rather there happened to be a creature that lived around humans that worked this way, and now it's a survival trait.