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Did you know that cats talk to each other? What I wonder is, what do they say behind our backs? Hi, I'm Carlos, and I'm a veterinarian. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Welcome to the Church of Petology. Well, it's not really that cats talk to each other, but that they are capable of communicating with each other. Following a question you asked me on the Happy Pets and Families Channel, I've been doing some research, and I've learned a lot of interesting things about cat communication that I'm going to tell you about. In this video, Yosh found a comment that was left asking us about how cats communicate, which is something he has to do. Anyway, thank you very much to the person who made the comment because it inspired this video. What we already know, and you probably know, is that cats communicate in many ways. They communicate through their faces, through the way they position their bodies. We all know what a cat is telling us when it's all ruffled and that you wouldn't dare approach it. And this isn't just exclusive to cats. In fact, some colors in nature mean danger. Don't come any closer. I have poison. Think, for example, of a bee or a wasp. The colors yellow and black are red, yellow and black. For other animals mean to potential predators that if they approach those animals, they're likely to get into trouble. This is a way of sending messages without having to speak. And the discipline or science that studies how animals communicate with each other is called zoo semiotics. Zoo animals, semiconductors, semiotics, signs. Well, that's all very well, but let's get to cats, which is what interests us in this video. We're not going to talk about how cats communicate with us, but rather how cats communicate with each other. And I found a very interesting article in which they tell us about the different ways cats communicate, to collaborate with each other, or even to get what they want. And everything I'm going to tell you will help us even more to understand feline psychology and for you to understand your cat. Because for those who haven't noticed, this channel is about understanding our cats. This ability to communicate with a goal, with a purpose has often been thought to be exclusive to humans. But it's not. Cats can do it, too. To reach these conclusions, they observed feral cats. And why feral cats? Cats that live in colonies on the street, because their behavior is more natural and is not influenced by the family they live with. Okay, but how can they communicate? Well, the first way probably won't surprise you is through purring. Purring has been linked to the ability to have joint attention. Joint attention is so that you understand me. Like when a mother tells her child her baby, in this case, I'm referring to humans, look at that toy and suddenly the child, the baby, even if they don't even know how to talk, looks at the toy. You are capturing the child's attention towards an object that you want them to look at, or you are doing something that you want them to do. Well, it has been observed that feral cats have this ability that at first glance, is very human, and they carry it out by purring. In case you don't know, in groups of feral cats, there are females that help mothers raise their kittens. For example, these females stay with the young kittens while the mothers go out to feed, to hunt. And how can a mother know that she can go out to feed herself and that her kitten will be safe? Well, because before going out to hunt, the caretaker cat has already been interacting with the young kitten, the small kitten. And for example, she starts to groom it and may emit a soft purr. This purring is what the researchers explain, maybe the way the caretaker and the mother communicate the saying, don't worry, go hunting, because when you get back, the baby will be in perfect condition. According to the researchers, for mothers to decide to leave their young, so to speak, abandoned without them being under their supervision, there have to be messages exchanged between the cats, because mothers would never leave them with a male cat, for example, because male cats do not take care of the young in feral cat groups, it always has to be through a message that the caretaker cat communicates to the mother in some way that her young will be fine. Okay, let's move on to another way that cats communicate. By sharing common spaces, places, or even objects. As we all know, cats tend to be somewhat solitary or even territorial animals, Especially when hunting. Cats hunt in a solitary manner. But it is also true that cats have certain social needs that they have to satisfy. This has been observed, for example, in cats that live on the street and that gather in areas to meet at ease. These are areas where cats sit next to each other, look at each other, squint their eyes, or some even groom each other in a friendly manner. These areas have a common characteristic, which is that they are open areas, which are areas where there are no obstacles, where there are no hiding places, so that it is possible to clearly observe that all the cats that are gathered there are in the Z for peace. It has also been observed that if another cat that does not live there arrives at that area. It also performs the same ritual. It meets with the rest of the cats at that meeting point. And remember, the meeting point is always the same. It tends to be the same place. Researchers have explained this because in this way cats are communicating. They are giving meaning to an area that everyone understands. And those cats know that there is no fighting there, that people are simply comfortable there. Listen, and this is very important. That an animal can give meaning to a thing or a place, and that the rest of the animals in its community understand. It is something that, until very recently, it was thought that only humans and at most some primates, could do. In 1999, another study was done on two kittens named Vivi and Lisa. These two kittens had a fairly friendly relationship because they shared something that all cats love. Do you know what it is? Let me know in the comments and I'm sure you'll guess it right. I don't know what you wrote, but I'm sure you've guessed it. It was a box. The relationship that Vivi and Lisa had was quite curious. They used that box to rest, not together. They would take turns. But the most curious thing of all is that even though neither of the two cats was using the box, if one, for example, left, the other would stay nearby to control the box, to keep an eye on it and make sure no other cat came along and got into the box and took it. Okay, you could explain this as the two cats getting along. And that's it. And that's why they controlled the box. That was useful for both of them. But when the researchers removed the box, they observed that the relationship between the cats disappeared. They didn't get along anymore. They weren't friends anymore. That's why in the article, they explained that the box had a meaning and that the two cats had, so to speak, poured their friendship into that box. It was the symbol of their friendship. If the box disappeared, the friendship between Vivi and Lisa also disappeared. They had given meaning to that box. Please tell me that Vive and Lisa were still friends afterwards. No, these weren't. Telma and Louise when they removed the box from the studio. They don't tell you later. And they remained friends and moved to Connecticut. Please know the story of Lisa and Bibi. But if all this doesn't seem interesting enough to you, and you want to know if cats communicate in another way, if you still need proof, I bring you Faulkner. Unidentified FORM OF COMMUNICATION Okay, I have to admit that I made this up. Researchers don't call it Foken this part like Most of feline psychology is still under study, so to speak, under construction. But I found it very interesting, and that's why I'm going to tell you about it, to see what you think. What has been observed is that cats can somehow organize themselves to cooperate. And how has it been observed? If you don't know, feral cats can use shared nests. That is different mothers meet in a place where they give birth to their litters and raise them there. But there's one thing that you probably already have in mind. It's very common for mother cats to move their young to different locations to hide them from predators or to prevent external parasites from colonizing that area. These are all theories that explain why cats move their young so much. And how has this been seen? Well, when mothers move the nest, they all do it at the same time and take the young to the same place. And this, as you can understand, it, can't be a coincidence. That's why the study proposes that there is a leader cat who is the one who initiates the movement, the one who starts the move, and another cat who are the followers who accompany the leader by moving all the young from the communal nest. There are several theories, but what is clear is that they have to communicate in some way, because up to seven cats can share the same nest. And these seven cats in turn have offspring of approximately five or six kittens per cat. How can it be that the seven mother cats agree to take their young to the same place, and that all seven mother cats think that the place where they are going to move their young is the ideal one, that it is more protected than the nest they came from? Somehow these mothers have to be cooperating because they're also all doing it at the same time. But there is something else in the study, it really caught my attention that they leave a bit of an open question. How can one of the mothers know that they have finished moving the entire nest, all the young? Well, I'm sorry, I don't have an answer for you because that is still under study. But my theory is that one of them goes to check it and passes the information on to the rest so that they know that the move is complete. I don't know. That's what I think. But what do you think? Leave me a comment. I know that many of you follow me, that you work with colonies, and that this probably sounds familiar to you. Imagine how fascinating all this is. I don't know. There are still many questions that arise for me when reading the study, and probably for you, too. And the worst of all is that feline psychology, ethology and the theory of feline behavior are still not very, very well studied. And surely if all this part were studied much more, we would be able to understand our feline companions much better, who are also the most misunderstood and know what their motivations are for acting, for having a certain behavior. Just for the four hours that I have spent breaking down this study, which was also in English, I think this video deserves a like, because you probably liked it. I think so. These behavioral issues are quite interesting to you. And from the Church of Mascotology, or call it however you want. I have a request to make. Please subscribe to this channel if you haven't already. And if you don't click the bell, you won't find out about this or other videos in the future or anything. Also remember that here on YouTube we have a secondary channel called Questions and Answers from a Veterinarian. Go to it and take a look. And today we meet this cow cat named Vipe, who is two years old and lives with Tony in Seville. I love Seville. And we continue meeting Taker, who lives with Cesar Arturo in Mexico. Hey Cesar, I love how you organized the email where you introduce him to us in a very clear way. And we finish with Pulgi and Bimba, who are two big fans of the Pets and Happy Families Channel. They live with David, who is a great friend, well, almost family in Madrid. Thank you very much for following the Pets and Happy Families Channel. And I'll see you in the next video. I'll say what I already knew or didn't know again. Dude, you made me say it 15 times. Researchers say that they don't say it in one way. That's it. They propose it as a theory. It's a theory. Oh my goodness. No, don't say it, please, please. I'll do something less disappointing. I don't know. No, that, that. Don't say it. Okay. Oh, you said 20,000. Oh, okay, 20,000. 20,000. Well, 20,000. And the study doesn't tell you. It seems very bad to me that researchers play with the friendship of those two poor cats. Of course. And why do they know? And why do they know? Well, because the answer to why yes is why no. Why? Why did you come? Because. Okay, but I'm saying why do you know in Miami? It doesn't have to be in a town in Connecticack or some Worcester county. Well, fog me, I made it up. I gave you the idea of UFOs. Well, I feel very undervalued on this channel. You're starting to notice, aren't you? The mothers are moving the nest. I don't know what she's going to say anymore. And they raise them there. Come on, let's take it little by little. I don't know what I said at the beginning.