Manipulation - Lemmy.World

Urban myth. How often are we gonna keep reposting this bullshit.
Well it’s based on a fact, iirc the real thing is domesticated cats learn to keep their kitten mew because humans respond to it, nothing to do with imitating human babies. But that does mean that only cats raised by people meow.
never heard a tiger meow
Feral cats definitely meow
Fair, tigers dont make sound i’d classify as a meow. But other big cat species do :
youtu.be/XDvZclY-5q8?si=vklhZBCMev4VQrnH
youtu.be/BXhfZRE08ko?si=RKbFDYGwbu53TA-s
Cheetah says "Meow!"

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But it also means that it is a complete lie that “cat’s don’t meow to each other”.
It’s not, wild adult cats still meow
It’s true, though. The sounds that adult cats use with each other are very different from the meows they use with humans.