Natali Anderson reports New Prehistoric Cat Species Discovered in Spain (‘The new cat species, named Magerifelis peignei, lived in what is now Spain some 15.5 million years ago’): It belonged to Felinae, a subfamily of small cats having a bony hyoid because of which they are able to purr but not roar. The new cat…
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Friday Catblogging: Rescued in Dubai
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Friday Catblogging: Cats & Dominoes
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Adventure, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Boat Cat
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Friday Catblogging: They’re Only Misunderstood
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Embed from Getty Images Colleen Grablick reports Cats aren’t jerks. They’re just misunderstood (‘Feline researchers say many cats are quite social. Yours might even want to learn a few tricks): Monique Udell is the director of the Human-Animal Interaction Lab at Oregon State University, which has been investigating the social potential of domestic cats. According…
Books, Cats, Good Ideas
Friday Catblogging: Paying Library Fines with Cat Photos
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Embed from Getty Images Vinay Menon writes Paying library fines with cat photos? It’s a purr-fect (sorry!) way to encourage literacy: But since even paltry fines may prove too much for some forgetful bookworms, the Worcester Public Library has just purred out a revolutionary idea: now you can pay for overdue, lost or damaged items…
Accidents, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Curious Cat Offers Help to First Responders
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Jennifer McRae reports Curious cat tries to help first responders at crash, hazmat spill on I-25 in Colorado: An orange tabby cat wandered onto the crash scene and hazmat spill on Interstate 25 in Douglas County [Colorado] on Thursday morning. Three people were hurt in the crash in the northbound lanes of I-25 at Happy…
Bad Ideas, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Still Safer Than Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Mode
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Bad Ideas, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Stay Out of the Lion Enclosure
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Embed from Getty Images Mary Walrath-Holdridge reports Man mauled to death after jumping into lion enclosure in India to take a selfie: A zoo-goer in India is dead after scaling a lion enclosure in hopes of taking a selfie, according to multiple reports. The man, 34-year-old Prahlad Gurjar of the Alwar District in northern India,…
Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: They Know It’s You
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Embed from Getty Images Nicola Davis reports Big cats can tell apart known and unknown human voices, study finds (‘Tigers, cheetahs and snow leopards, like domesticated cats, respond differently to familiar and unfamiliar voices’): From tigers to cheetahs, big cats may seem majestically aloof but researchers have found they can tell apart familiar and unfamiliar…
Animals, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Lions v. Ants
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Embed from Getty Images Kyle Melnick reports In Kenya, the king of the jungle faces a new challenge — ants (‘Researchers said big-headed ants started an “ecological chain reaction” in a Kenya conservancy, impacting lions and other animals’): Lions have long stood atop the food chain, but now a new enemy has forced the dominant…