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Cat Whiskers: Sensory Hairs and the Evidence About Bowls
How cat whiskers work, what a study of feeding bowls actually found, and why bowl preference is not a diagnosis of whisker fatigue.
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Science & SpaceTilcayo: What We Know About Bolivia’s Newly Described Wild Cat
Meet Leopardus tilcayo, the small wild cat from Bolivia's Yungas forests, and discover what the new genetic study…
MusicCat Power, Cat Stevens and Stray Cats: Three Musical Identities
A listening route through Cat Power, Cat Stevens and Stray Cats, exploring three distinct musical identities connected by…
GamingNintendo’s Cats: How Feline Ideas Become Game Mechanics
Nintendo's developers explain Cat Mario and Nintendogs + Cats: how movement, behaviour and relationships become playable ideas.
Internet CultureWoman Yelling at a Cat: Two Images, Two Different Stories
Meet Smudge and understand Taylor Armstrong's account of the television scene behind Woman Yelling at a Cat, and…
Internet CultureRemembering Maru: The Cat Who Made a Box Worth Watching
Remember Maru's life, his dated Guinness record and the household behind his videos, with a careful look at…
Film & TVPuss in Boots: From Perrault’s Trickster to Toei’s Mascot
Follow Puss in Boots from earlier Italian tales and Perrault's manuscript to Toei's Pero, separating documented versions from…
Books & ReadingThe Cheshire Cat: An Older Saying, a New Character and an Uncertain Origin
The Cheshire Cat’s grin predates Wonderland. The manuscript and the novel show how Carroll transformed an expression into…
LifestyleHemingway’s Polydactyl Cats: The Colony, the Genetics and the Court Case
What the museum, genetic studies and a federal court opinion tell us about Hemingway’s cats—and where their accounts…
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