Aggressive Acoustic Mimicry in South American Cats

[drhoz]

via Dwaleberry, via Darren Brown

Comments

[erinlin]

Wow. That makes all the stories of leopards sounding like a women screaming really creepy.

[drhoz]

hmm - indeed!

[soulrockcandy]

Oh poo, for a second I thought it was an Ocelot. MY MGS JOKE IS RUINED.

This kind of reminds me of something I read about housecats mimicking baby cries to appeal to human maternal instincts or something... I can't remember where, though. Maybe I dreamt it. Can anyone verify that?

[blauchloeg]

Adamska~ <3
I thought it was an occy at first too xD
Still a cute kitty though, if not really creepy.

[rocza]

Desmond Morris talks about it in his book Catwatching. *

*Helps to spell the title of the book right.

[logansrogue]

I know that sometimes I think I hear my cat, when it's a woman pushing her crying baby in a pram outside on the footpath. So they have a similar waveform, I think.

[underlankers]

Man Margays are awesome.

[awolfnamedhate]

Wow. o.o!

[drhoz]

you might lose your face if you try...