• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Supposedly our voices are too low and we sound like noise to them. I watched a video where scientists transformed their voices to the same frequency as a mouse and they were able to train a cat.

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      5 hours ago

      I think it’s a poor take on cat hearing. They can hear better than us, but it requires targeted focus from their ears. Which is partly why they have better hearing: they can fixate on sounds by turning their ears.

      So when you yell from the other room, the cat likely won’t hear unless their ear is aimed at the sound to pick it up. Which is unlikely.

      Don’t take memes as “truth.”

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      15 hours ago

      Every cat owner can tell you that they do know their names when spoken. Also, people can train cats without transforming their voices.