As it turns out, cats “get” your tongue, whether they’re lions, leopards, or house cats.
Leopards were one of 10 species involved in the new study, which found that undomesticated cats in captivity can recognize caretakers’ voices. They might not come when you call them, but recent research reveals that cats recognize the voices of their caretakers — not thanks to their domestication, but thanks, instead, to their proximity to people.when their caretakers are more familiar.
The ability of animals, and of domesticated animals in particular, to discern people’s voices is an area of significant scientific interest. And it’s no wonder why: Who wouldn’t want to know whether their cat recognizes the sound of their voice?With such solid research on the scope of vocal recognition in domesticated cats, their ability to differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar people based on people’s voices was deemed a product of their domestication.
“These findings suggest that close human contact rather than domestication is associated with the ability to discriminate between human voices and that less social species may have socio-cognitive abilities akin to those of more gregarious species,” the researchers reported in their study.
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