this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Adult cats totally meow at each other. Plenty of YouTube videos of colony cats fitted with cameras where they're doing it. Heck, earlier today there was an upvoted post of a cat meowing at another because it wanted to be groomed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hm, maybe I heard someone who was just confident with their presentation, and I thought it was science. Clearly there are some counterexamples out there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah it's a super common myth, but it's about as real as alpha wolves or lemmings jumping off cliffs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

or lemmings jumping off cliffs

Yeah, what ☝️he said!