Does your pet cat act differently with some members of your family than it does towards others? A team of researchers in ...

Cats have a unique language constructed especially for humans and made of meows. Susanne Schötz, a specialist in human melody at Lund University in Sweden and author of The Secret Language of Cats ...

Anyone who’s lived with a cat knows that there’s no “one-size-fits-all” meow. Rather, a cat has a diverse meow-cabulary, with different sounds used in different situations. Other animals have similar ...

The issue of why cats meow -- along with many other questions -- is tackled in a new book called "The Cat's Meow." dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images What do cats mean when they meow? Why do modern ...

Anyone who lives with a cat may have tried it: a playful meow to greet or respond to the animal’s sounds. But what do cats ...

"Meow!" As cat owners, we hear it every day, many times a day. But what does it really mean? Why do cats meow? The answer is simple, to communicate with us. A cat's primary language consists of scent, ...

Purring isn’t just comfort. New research suggests cat purrs act like vocal fingerprints, preserving identity even as meows ...

Learn why purrs say more about a cat's identity than its meows, and how domestication forever changed the way cats ...