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Cats do this, too. Late at night, a buddy of mine happened on a bunch of cats sitting in a circle, taking turns meowing at each other. He froze and watched it for a little while, and after a few meows, they all whipped around to look at him when they became aware of him, and then they all scattered in all directions.
What were they up to? Why did a human nearby scare them and make them stop and run?
Edit: Yes, I know adult cats don't meow at each other, only at humans. I'm just reporting what was told to me.
Adult cats totally meow at each other. Plenty of YouTube videos of colony cats fitted with cameras where they're doing it. Heck, earlier today there was an upvoted post of a cat meowing at another because it wanted to be groomed
Hm, maybe I heard someone who was just confident with their presentation, and I thought it was science. Clearly there are some counterexamples out there.
Oh yeah it's a super common myth, but it's about as real as alpha wolves or lemmings jumping off cliffs
Yeah, what ☝️he said!
I would venture a guess and say that most animals (at least land animals that aren't subject to motions of the surrounding medium like fish are) would probably communicate face to face, not sure what is considered so unusual about that.
Yeah, but why were they all taking turns?
What the fuck were they saying?
Why don't they do it when people are around?
They are talking about how they would eat their owner if they die.
Each meow is a body part.