May 11, 2017 06:58 PM
Cats have the best relationships with adult women
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...women.html
SUMMARY: Cats haven't been as studied as dogs when it comes to social behaviour. But studies have shown that cats form affectionate bonds with their owners. Cats appear to have the best relationship with owners who are adult women. Differences in human behaviour may explain the variation in these relationships. For example, men are thought to be more likely to interact with cats while seated. Whereas woman tend to interact with cats at their level, normally on the floor. Adults also usually call to a cat before interacting, allowing the cat to decide whether to respond or not. But children, especially boys, tend to approach cats directly, which may not be tolerated well by individual cats...
What Is This Slug Doing On This Cat?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/artic...n-this-cat
EXCERPT: What's going on with this slug? I saw it in my Twitter feed on Monday, and can't stop thinking about the slimy protuberance. Entomologist Suzanne Wainwright-Evans discovered the intrepid invert glued to her cat's fur. "It was emerging out of casing," she tweeted. Wainwright-Evans told me her cat—a "love monster" whose name is Adjunct—"comes in every day to get brushed and that's when we noticed the clump in his fur and decided to cut it out." Apparently this was weird enough for other bug experts to chime in, though none seemed sure of why a slug would encapsulate itself like that. Now infected with this nagging question, I decided to email a few biologists, mainly those specializing in gastropods....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...women.html
SUMMARY: Cats haven't been as studied as dogs when it comes to social behaviour. But studies have shown that cats form affectionate bonds with their owners. Cats appear to have the best relationship with owners who are adult women. Differences in human behaviour may explain the variation in these relationships. For example, men are thought to be more likely to interact with cats while seated. Whereas woman tend to interact with cats at their level, normally on the floor. Adults also usually call to a cat before interacting, allowing the cat to decide whether to respond or not. But children, especially boys, tend to approach cats directly, which may not be tolerated well by individual cats...
What Is This Slug Doing On This Cat?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/artic...n-this-cat
EXCERPT: What's going on with this slug? I saw it in my Twitter feed on Monday, and can't stop thinking about the slimy protuberance. Entomologist Suzanne Wainwright-Evans discovered the intrepid invert glued to her cat's fur. "It was emerging out of casing," she tweeted. Wainwright-Evans told me her cat—a "love monster" whose name is Adjunct—"comes in every day to get brushed and that's when we noticed the clump in his fur and decided to cut it out." Apparently this was weird enough for other bug experts to chime in, though none seemed sure of why a slug would encapsulate itself like that. Now infected with this nagging question, I decided to email a few biologists, mainly those specializing in gastropods....