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Catsare apparently creatures with many different faces.
Last month, a study was published in the journalBehavioural Processes, which detailed that domestic cats have 276 different facial expressions that they can — and do — channel.
All of the felines studied were male and female adult domestic shorthairs that had each been neutered or spayed, the study said.
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After 194 minutes of video footage was captured, which included 186 cat interactions, the authors compared the expressions with the Facial Action Coding System, which is designed specifically for cats, the study said.
The co-authors noted that muscle movements including breathing and yawning were not included in the study’s findings.
And while the study authors were not able to identify what each expression they recorded meant, they found that 51.45% of the expressions were friendly, while the other 48.55% were aggressive.
“The literature is so sparse, and many studies only focus on the connection between cats and humans over the course of 10,000 years of domestication,” study co-author Florkiewicz toldLive Sciencein a statement.
“At the cat cafe, we were able to document spontaneous interactions between the cats and record their facial expressions,” she added.
source: people.com
