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I think my human might be an idiot (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a human baby (how could they, most cats have never seen a human baby), but as a kitten they meow to their parents to get food etc. So we're their parents now and I guess they never really grew up and became independent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Well adult cats raised around humans figure out what meows work the best and that is one that sounds like baby

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cats meow in the same register that human babies cry. They aren't saying that cats are specifically trying to cry like a human baby, but that cats as a species have grown over thousands of years to meow in the same pitches as human babies.