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A 9,500-year-old human-cat burial at Shillourokambos, Cyprus
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Excavating the Neolithic village of Shillourokambos on Cyprus, Vigne and colleagues uncovered a complete cat skeleton deliberately buried within centimetres of a human grave, the two interred together…
Jean-Denis Vigne, Jean Guilaine, Karyne Debue, Laurent Haye, Patrice Gerard · Science · 2004
A MYBPC3 mutation in the Maine Coon cat with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Meurs and colleagues identified the genetic basis of inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Maine Coon cats, a common and sometimes fatal heart disease. Studying a colony of affected cats, they mapp…
Kathryn M. Meurs, Xiaobo Sanchez, Rebecca M. David, et al. · Human Molecular Genetics · 2005
A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island vertebrates
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Medina and colleagues reviewed the worldwide evidence for the effects of feral cats on island vertebrates, where naive and often endemic faunas are especially vulnerable. Compiling records across many…
Felix M. Medina, Elsa Bonnaud, Eric Vidal, et al. · Global Change Biology · 2011
A review of feline infectious peritonitis virus infection: 1963-2008
Review
This comprehensive review synthesized four and a half decades of research on feline infectious peritonitis, covering the biology of feline coronavirus, the internal-mutation hypothesis by which a beni…
Pedersen NC · Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery · 2009
A virus-like particle associated with leukaemia (lymphosarcoma) in cats
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This pioneering work identified virus-like particles associated with naturally occurring lymphosarcoma in cats, providing early evidence that a transmissible retrovirus underlies the disease now known…
Jarrett WFH, Crawford EM, Martin WB, Davie F · Nature · 1964
AAFP and ISFM feline environmental needs guidelines
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Ellis and colleagues, on behalf of the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the International Society of Feline Medicine, produced consensus guidelines defining the environmental needs of…
Sarah L. H. Ellis, Ilona Rodan, Hazel C. Carney, et al. · Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery · 2013
Acoustic classification of domestic cat meows
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This study recorded meows from domestic cats across behavioural contexts and analysed their acoustic structure, also testing whether human listeners could assign calls to context. Meows were acoustica…
Nicholas Nicastro, Michael Owren · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2003
Albinism in the Domestic Cat Is Associated with a Tyrosinase Mutation
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This study examined the temperature-sensitive coloration of pointed cats, such as the Siamese and Burmese, and the rare full albino, mapping these phenotypes to variants in the tyrosinase gene that co…
Deborah L. Imes, Leslie A. Lyons, et al. · Animal Genetics · 2006
An archaeological and historical review of felid-human relationships
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Faure and Kitchener synthesized archaeological, iconographic and historical evidence to trace how people and small cats came together across the ancient world. They argued that domestication was a gra…
Eva-Maria Geigl Faure, Andrew C. Kitchener · Anthrozoos · 2009
Application of assisted reproductive technologies for felid population management
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This review examined how artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and gamete cryopreservation can support the genetic and demographic management of captive felid populations.…
Swanson WF · Theriogenology · 2006
Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans
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Vitale, Behnke and Udell adapted the secure base test used with infants and dogs to ask whether cats form attachment bonds with their owners. Cats experienced a brief separation from and reunion with…
Kristyn R. Vitale, Alexandra C. Behnke, Monique A. R. Udell · Current Biology · 2019
Biology of ovarian cycles, pregnancy and pseudopregnancy in the domestic cat
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This review summarized the reproductive physiology of the domestic cat, which serves as the principal model for understanding felid reproduction. The authors described the follicular phase and estrous…
Tsutsui T, Stabenfeldt GH · Journal of Reproduction and Fertility. Supplement · 1993
Birth of African Wildcat cloned kittens born from domestic cats
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This study reported the successful cloning of an endangered small felid by somatic cell nuclear transfer using domestic cats as oocyte donors and surrogate mothers. Researchers transferred nuclei from…
Gomez MC, Pope CE, Giraldo A, Lyons LA, Harris RF, King AL, Cole A, Godke RA, Dresser BL · Cloning and Stem Cells · 2004
Cat behaviour: the predatory and social motor patterns
Review
This landmark ethological treatise compiled decades of close observation into a comprehensive description of feline behaviour, with especially detailed analysis of the predatory sequence: the stalk, t…
Paul Leyhausen · 1979
Cats are sensitive to human emotional gestures
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This study tested whether cats modify their behaviour according to their owner's displayed emotion, comparing happy and angry expressions. Cats showed behaviours consistent with detecting the emotiona…
Moriah Galvan, Jennifer Vonk · Animal Cognition · 2016
Cats discriminate human emotional cues
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Galvan and Vonk investigated whether domestic cats are sensitive to their owners' emotional expressions, a capacity well documented in dogs. Cats were exposed to their owner displaying either a happy…
Moriah Galvan, Jennifer Vonk · Animal Cognition · 2016
Cats form secure and insecure attachments to caregivers
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Adapting the Strange Situation Test used with infants and dogs, researchers observed how cats behaved when their owner left and returned. Cats displayed distinct attachment styles: secure individuals…
Kristyn Vitale, Alexandra Behnke, Monique Udell · Current Biology · 2019
Cats mentally map their owner's location from voice
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This experiment tested whether cats hold a spatial representation of unseen humans. A cat was placed in a room while its owner's voice was played from a speaker at one location, then, after a delay, f…
Saho Takagi and colleagues · PLOS ONE · 2021
Cats recognise their owners by voice
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Using a habituation-dishabituation design, researchers played domestic cats recordings of their owner's voice interspersed with strangers calling their name. Cats showed orienting responses such as ea…
Atsuko Saito, Kazutaka Shinozuka · Animal Cognition · 2013
Cats respond to cat-directed speech from their owners
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This study examined whether cats are sensitive to the high-pitched, sing-song register people use when addressing pets. Cats showed stronger behavioural responses when their own owner spoke in cat-dir…
Charlotte de Mouzon and colleagues · Animal Cognition · 2023
Cats use a causal-logical understanding of rattling containers
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Researchers shook opaque containers in front of cats; some rattled and some were silent, and the experimenter then tipped each to reveal whether an object fell out. Cats explored more and showed expec…
Saho Takagi and colleagues · Animal Cognition · 2016
Classification of domestic cat meows and human perception
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Nicastro and Owren analyzed the acoustic structure of domestic cat meows recorded in different behavioural contexts and tested whether human listeners could classify them. They measured features such…
Nicholas Nicastro, Michael J. Owren · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2003
Comparative Analysis of the Domestic Cat Genome Reveals Signatures of Domestication
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This study produced an improved domestic cat genome assembly and compared it with wildcats and other mammals to find molecular footprints of domestication. The authors identified selection signals in…
Michael J. Montague, Wesley C. Warren, Stephen J. O'Brien, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014
Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome and domestication signatures
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Montague and colleagues produced a high-quality domestic cat reference genome and compared it with wild felids and other mammals to find the genetic footprint of domestication. They detected selection…
Michael J. Montague, Gang Li, Barbara Gandolfi, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014
Comparative aspects of steroid hormone metabolism and ovarian activity in felids, measured noninvasively in feces
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This study validated and applied fecal steroid hormone assays to track ovarian activity in multiple felid species without restraint or blood sampling. The authors characterized how estrogen and proges…
Brown JL, Wasser SK, Wildt DE, Graham LH · Biology of Reproduction · 1994
Comparative endocrinology of domestic and nondomestic felids
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This review compiled what was known about reproductive hormone patterns across the cat family, drawing heavily on noninvasive fecal and urinary steroid monitoring developed for zoo animals. The author…
Brown JL · Theriogenology · 2006
Comparing cats and dogs in following human pointing gestures
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Researchers tested whether cats, like dogs, can use a human pointing gesture to locate hidden food. Cats successfully chose the indicated container above chance, showing they can read this human commu…
Adam Miklosi and colleagues · Journal of Comparative Psychology · 2005
Cross-modal recognition of emotions in cats
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Building on emotion research, this study asked whether cats integrate visual and auditory emotional information from both humans and other cats. Cats were presented with facial expressions and vocalis…
Serenella d'Ingeo, Angelo Quaranta and colleagues · Animals · 2020
Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech
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De Mouzon and colleagues investigated whether cats respond differently to the special register people use when talking to them, analogous to infant-directed speech. Cats were played recordings of thei…
Charlotte de Mouzon, Marine Gonthier, Gerard Leboucher · Animal Cognition · 2023
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input
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Herbst and colleagues challenged the long-held assumption that purring requires continuous, cyclical neural commands to the laryngeal muscles. Working with excised cat larynges, they showed that simpl…
Christian T. Herbst, Tamara Prigge, Maxime Garcia, et al. · Current Biology · 2023

A 9,500-year-old human-cat burial at Shillourokambos, Cyprus

A MYBPC3 mutation in the Maine Coon cat with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island vertebrates

A review of feline infectious peritonitis virus infection: 1963-2008

A virus-like particle associated with leukaemia (lymphosarcoma) in cats

AAFP and ISFM feline environmental needs guidelines

Acoustic classification of domestic cat meows

Albinism in the Domestic Cat Is Associated with a Tyrosinase Mutation

An archaeological and historical review of felid-human relationships

Application of assisted reproductive technologies for felid population management

Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans

Biology of ovarian cycles, pregnancy and pseudopregnancy in the domestic cat

Birth of African Wildcat cloned kittens born from domestic cats

Cat behaviour: the predatory and social motor patterns

Cats are sensitive to human emotional gestures

Cats discriminate human emotional cues

Cats form secure and insecure attachments to caregivers

Cats mentally map their owner's location from voice

Cats recognise their owners by voice

Cats respond to cat-directed speech from their owners

Cats use a causal-logical understanding of rattling containers

Classification of domestic cat meows and human perception

Comparative Analysis of the Domestic Cat Genome Reveals Signatures of Domestication

Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome and domestication signatures

Comparative aspects of steroid hormone metabolism and ovarian activity in felids, measured noninvasively in feces

Comparative endocrinology of domestic and nondomestic felids

Comparing cats and dogs in following human pointing gestures

Cross-modal recognition of emotions in cats

Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech

Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input