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> As for the purr, they don;t refer to the "satisfaction purr" cats do when you pet then Before today, the only sort of "purr" I'd ever heard anyone refer to i
by yellowapple 3y ago
> As for the purr, they don;t refer to the "satisfaction purr" cats do when you pet then
Before today, the only sort of "purr" I'd ever heard anyone refer to is a "satisfaction purr". What your quotation describes as a "solicitation purr" is what I reckon most people would call a "meow" or maybe a "yell". One of those cases where colloquial v. scientific uses of a word diverge rather severely, I guess.
- coldtea 3y ago>is what I reckon most people would call a "meow" or maybe a "yell" Again, no. They refer to a different kind of purr that cats do when asking for something, distinct from a meow. A purr that most people might not even have noticed as it occurs next to (and between) meows. And this special purr also has an embedded higher frequency component similar to a meow, as they explain, that they had to amplify and do some signal processing to hear properly. It's funny how people are not willing to read the study (or read carefully), but would rather assume that scientists (and even worse: scientists studying cats) don't know what a meow and a purr is, and just use the terms incorrectly!