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Possibly, but I do wonder if there's a difference between American and European cats as far as the drug response goes.
by eps 6y ago
Possibly, but I do wonder if there's a difference between American and European cats as far as the drug response goes.
- gwern 6y agoOh, there definitely is a difference in probability of being a catnip responder: https://www.gwern.net/images/catnip/catnip-googlesurveys-countryforest.png https://www.gwern.net/images/catnip/catnip-googlesurveys-cou... European countries appear less likely. However, that seems explainable simply by higher or lower genetic level of catnip response propensity. They are less likely to respond, but I would expect the correlation matrix to be the same. There's no particular reason to expect the fundamental biology to be different and thus that a cat in Europe is responding to catnip using a different biological pathway and so whatever overlap there is with the valerian response may be completely different and the correlation within-cat different.