• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Supposedly our voices are too low and we sound like noise to them. I watched a video where scientists transformed their voices to the same frequency as a mouse and they were able to train a cat.

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      3 days ago

      Every cat owner can tell you that they do know their names when spoken. Also, people can train cats without transforming their voices.

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      2 days ago

      I think it’s a poor take on cat hearing. They can hear better than us, but it requires targeted focus from their ears. Which is partly why they have better hearing: they can fixate on sounds by turning their ears.

      So when you yell from the other room, the cat likely won’t hear unless their ear is aimed at the sound to pick it up. Which is unlikely.

      Don’t take memes as “truth.”

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        2 days ago

        I dont think the ear position aids in hearing amplification. It aids in spatial audio positioning.

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          It’s literally what people used to do 150 years ago before in ear hearing aids. Just put a giant cone up to their ear.

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            Ear trumpets dont amplify, but provides more surface area to gather more sound enegry. So sure, it would aid in their hunting to focus on the faintest of sounds, but if you were yelling in another room, their ear position would make an imperceivable difference in intensity, but enough of a difference for their brains to pick up the tiny difference to tune to ears to determine where you are yelling from and promptly ignore you.