LatestDo cats know their names? A Japanese study tested 77 cats and found they can tell their own name from other words. Here is the research, and its limits.
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CuriositiesShip's cats sailed with Vikings, Flinders and the Royal Navy until 1975. The real naval history of felines…
Internet CultureCat blogs ruled the web before social feeds arrived. From Usenet to Carnival of the Cats, Cute Overload…
Film & TVCat People (1942) cost RKO $135,000 and 18 shooting days, then redefined horror by never showing the monster.…
Books & ReadingCats in Japanese literature run from Soseki's nameless narrator to Murakami's missing strays. Here is the history, the…
LifestyleLibrary cats have been on the public payroll since 1868, from British Post Office mousers at a shilling…
Science & SpaceFélicette was the first cat in space, launched by France in 1963 on a Véronique rocket. Her 13-minute…
CuriositiesManeki-neko history: Japan's beckoning cat first appears in Edo records from 1852, not ancient myth. Paw meanings, colors,…
MusicSongs about cats, from Nina Simone's claymation jazz club to Radiohead's mongrel cat, plus the Italian tune that…
GamingCat simulator games look easy. They are not: quadruped rigs, contextual jumps, and a drone that exists only…
Memes & Internet HistoryCeiling Cat, Basement Cat and Caturday turned anonymous imageboard cat photos into a working folk religion. The real…
Internet CultureThe cat distribution system began as one TikTok in 2022. The real origin, the science of why strays…
Film & TVStudio Ghibli cats are not decoration: the Catbus is yokai folklore, Jiji is Kiki's own voice, and two…
Books & ReadingOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats began as letters to godchildren in the 1930s. How T.S. Eliot's side…
LifestyleJapan's cat islands, from Aoshima to Tashirojima: how fishing villages and silk farms became feline colonies, and why…
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