The BBC reports that a cat narrowly avoided disaster after being spotted on the roof of a train as it prepared to depart: The tabby was seen on an Avanti West Coast train at London Euston, about half an hour before it was due to leave for Manchester at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday. Passengers were transferred…
Cats
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Sterling Davis, Defender of Cats
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Most Tricks Performed by a Cat in a Minute
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Cats, Coronavirus
Friday Catblogging: A Tiger in Seattle
by JOHN ADAMS •
Malayan tiger Azul jumps into the spotlight today for her debut. She’s the first female Malayan tiger at our Zoo. In the future, we will introduce her to our male, Bumi, in the hope that they produce cubs. Read more at https://t.co/PQHNibd7cJ #TongueOutTuesday #EndangeredSpecies pic.twitter.com/h7d1mL76s7 — Woodland Park Zoo (@woodlandparkzoo) January 19, 2021 Without question,…
Cats, Games/Puzzles
Friday Catblogging: ‘Stray’ Launches This Year, Sony Confirms
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Ewan Moore, writing at Gaming Bible, reports that Backpack-Wearing Cat Detective Simulator ‘Stray’ Launches This Year, Sony Confirms. Moore, with an admirable sense of what matters most in the gaming scene, writes that Stray might genuinely be the only video game I care about anymore. Seriously. You can keep your sequels to Horizon Zero Dawn…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cat in Snow for First Time
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Cats, Music, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Did Mozart Like to Imitate Cats?
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Maddy Shaw Roberts, at classicfm, writes that Mozart apparently liked to imitate cats. Here’s the tail as we know it: This lovely little anecdote has been floating around since the 19th century. Karoline von Greiner Pichler, an Austrian novelist and former student of Mozart, describes her teacher in her 1843 memoirs, quoted in Otto Deutsch’s Mozart:…
Cats, Natural Disasters, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat feared dead in 2018 California mudslide found alive
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Rare Scottish Wildcats
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Cats, Plants, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: ‘Nip
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[Leonora Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.] Inverse has an article on The science behind catnip’s potent powers: Catnip’s pungent odor comes from a chemical called nepetalactone. It helps the plant repel insects. But this research takes us further into the evolution of nepetalactone using genetic analysis. According to study co-author Benjamin Lichman, a…
Cats, Holiday
Friday Catblogging: Jingle Cats, We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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America, Cats, History, Military
Friday Catblogging: Heroic Military Cats
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Jackie Mead writes of 6 Heroic Military Cats. Among those admirable felines was the U.S. Navy tabby Princess Papule: Striped tabby Princess Papule was born on July 4, 1944, at the Pearl Harbor Navy Base in Hawaii. Pooli, as she was known to the sailors, was brought aboard the attack transport USS Fremont by crewman James Lynch.…
Cats, Music
Friday Catblogging: Kitten Cam Translates Meows into Saxophone Sounds
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David Pescovitz writes Live kitten cam with meows transformed into saxophone sounds: Jazz Cats is a live kitten cam in which the meows are changed into saxophone sounds. The software behind the sound is Imitone, pitch-to-MIDI software that translates the notes that you (or the cats) sing into the sound of any digital instrument. When…