{"id":1889,"date":"2009-08-03T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T04:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/science-proves-cats-indeed-are-evil\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T04:25:47","slug":"science-proves-cats-indeed-are-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/03\/science-proves-cats-indeed-are-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Proves Cats Indeed Are Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode.cfm?id=cat-call-coerces-can-opening-09-07-14\" target=\"_blank\">from Scientific American<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Cat Call Coerces Can Opening<\/h1>\n<p><em>A study in the journal\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Current Biology<\/em>\u00a0finds that some cat purrs include a high-frequency plaintive component that gets people to do cats&#8217; bidding. Karen Hopkin reports<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, fantasy; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"bold\">Listen to this podcast:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; color: #33302d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px\" id=\"player_78F746D3-B0EB-4564-92A1AEBDE8F1AE9F\"><object width=\"150\" height=\"25\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/assets\/flash\/mp3player\/xspf_jukebox.swf?track_url=http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/podcast\/podcast.mp3?e_id=78F746D3-B0EB-4564-92A1AEBDE8F1AE9F\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" flashvars=\"mainurl=\/podcast\/&amp;skin_url=http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/assets\/flash\/mp3player\/skin_2009\/&amp;buffer=5&amp;repeat_playlist=false&amp;timedisplay=2&amp;duration=81000\" wmode=\"transparent\" quality=\"high\" name=\"xspf_jukebox\" id=\"xspf_jukebox\" height=\"25\" width=\"150\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/janeheller.mlblogs.com\/evil.cat.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"188\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image of Evil Cat from Jane Heller\" \/>Anyone who\u2019s ever had a cat knows how demanding they can be. Let me out, let me in, give me food, give me different food. The list goes on. But how do these clever kitties convince us to do their bidding? A study in the July 14 issue of\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Current Biology<\/em>\u00a0suggests it\u2019s all in how they ask.<\/p>\n<p>Karen McComb of the University of Sussex started studying persuasive cat calls after realizing that her own pet used a hybrid between a purr and a cry to get her out of bed in the morning. McComb got recordings of other cat calls. And back in the lab, she found that humans thought purrs made by cats who were trying to solicit a snack were more urgent, and less pleasant, than those made when kitty was, say, relaxing on the sofa.\u00a0<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>Turns out that the &#8220;feed me&#8221; purr includes a high-frequency component, absent from the contented purr, that makes people want to reach for a can opener just to make Fluffy stop. It\u2019s obviously part of \u201cFluffy\u2019s Master Plan (song) for World Domination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Karen Hopkin<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode.cfm?id=cat-call-coerces-can-opening-09-07-14\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at Scientific American<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Scientific American Cat Call Coerces Can Opening A study in the journal\u00a0Current Biology\u00a0finds that some cat purrs include a high-frequency plaintive component that gets people to do cats&#8217; bidding. Karen Hopkin reports Listen to this podcast: Anyone who\u2019s ever had a cat knows how demanding they can be. Let me out, let me in, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}