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Cats
Sept 3, 2016 20:45:52 GMT
Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 3, 2016 20:45:52 GMT
A musician has created an album of music for feline listeners, even though he is allergic to them.
David Teie, a scientist and cellist in the US National Symphony Orchestra, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through crowdfunding and sold 10,000 copies of his record independently
He was then offered a deal with Universal Music and his album Music For Cats is set for release on 28 October.
Mr Teie said that the music was created based on his scientific theory that cats appreciate music through the sounds they hear as kittens, such as their mother's purr or birds chirping
He told the Press Association: "Not all cats respond - one will go right over to the speaker and one will just walk out of the room.
"I like the idea that critical taste applies to cats too.
"But I've seen videos where cats nuzzle up to the speaker or even curl completely around it.
"Very excitable cats are completely calmed and formerly abused or feral cats tend to respond best."
The music is played at shelters, where Mr Teie says it can cut down the time it takes for a feral cat to interact with humans.
"It is communication in the cat's language, of acceptance and understanding and the comfort that goes along with that."
He added that, while reptiles "don't have the brain structures for it, all mammals are ripe for music".
A spokesman for Universal Music said they were "thrilled to be part of this world-first project and break into the massive untapped market of non-human music fans".
"The possibilities are endless for more species-specific 'Music For' albums - dogs and horses could all be on the cards."
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Post by jimmy on Sept 5, 2016 18:45:31 GMT
The world's going ***** mad. If cats wanted music they'd learn to play the ***** clarinet.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 5, 2016 19:43:05 GMT
The world's going ***** mad. If cats wanted music they'd learn to play the ***** clarinet.
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Cats
Sept 23, 2016 20:51:06 GMT
Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 23, 2016 20:51:06 GMT
The world’s first large-scale study of “ancient feline DNA” has found that cats are even more resilient than previously thought, and having viking companions are just one of the many lives the self-reliant animals have led. After becoming domesticated in Egypt and the Near East 15,000 years ago, the furry friends were brought on board to kill rodents while vikings conquered the globe. Their affiliation for mice kept them around farmers in the Mediterranean. DNA from 209 cats that lived between 15,000 and 2,700 years ago were sequenced when the study was presented at the International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology in Oxford last week.
The aim of the study was to learn more about the largely unknown ancient heritage of the animal that many (37 per cent of Americans, in fact) have welcomed into their home. "We don’t know the history of ancient cats. We do not know their origin, we don't know how their dispersal occurred," said one of the studies team members, Eva-Maria Geigl, an evolutionary geneticist from the Institut Jacques Monod in France, to Nature. The team found that cats probably experienced two waves of expansion during their early years, according to the DNA from cats found in ancient Egypt tombs, burial sites in Cyprus and a Viking grave in Germany. Evidence of the animals were found in more than 30 archaeological excavation sites across Europe, the middle East, and Africa. “There are so many interesting observations in the study,”says Population Geneticist Pontus Skoglund from Harvard Medical School. “I didn’t even know there were Viking cats.” he says. Well, now that you mention it.
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Cats
Sept 23, 2016 21:51:06 GMT
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Post by fitzyefc on Sept 23, 2016 21:51:06 GMT
Cats are survivors. One of the few domesticated animals that can look after themselves.
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