Cats communicate in a variety of ways, including purrs, meows, and hisses, in addition to body language. When your feline friend makes a strange cat sound, it could be a means of communicating with ...

Cats have a reputation for being aloof, but new behavioral research suggests they are paying closer attention to us than we ...

Discover nine common sounds your cat makes and what they reveal about its emotional state, mood, comfort level, and overall ...

A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of ...

A study suggests that humans often misinterpret a pet’s signals; even purring doesn’t guarantee a contented cat. By Anthony Ham What is the meaning of a cat’s meow that grows louder and louder? Or ...

These sounds are from a library of 440 cat meows collected for scientific research called CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations. They are protected by Creative Commons ...

Purring isn’t just comfort. New research suggests cat purrs act like vocal fingerprints, preserving identity even as meows change.

Meeaaaoow rises like a question mark before dawn. Anyone living with a cat knows their sounds: broken chirrups like greetings, low growls that warn, purrs stitched into sleepy conversation.

Whenever my cat meows incessantly in my direction despite my attempts to play with him, I so wish I could just speak meow to figure out what he really wants. (Though I'd place my bets on it being ...