French researchers found that cafe cats approached a human stranger the fastest when they used vocal and visual cues to get their attention.
“When we communicate with them, what is more important to them? Is it the visual cues or the vocal cues? That was the starting question of our research,” de Mouzon told GizmodoThey recruited help from 12 cats living at a cat cafe. The experimenter first got the cats used to her presence. Then she put them through different scenarios.
vocalizations. They now theorize that this preference might be different for cats interacting with human strangers than it would be for their owners. “It shows that it’s not the same thing. It’s not the same for a cat to communicate with their owner as it is to communicate with an unfamiliar human,” she said. “It’s nice to have the results that you expect. But sometimes it’s also nice to have results that you don’t expect, because it makes you think and form new hypotheses that try to get at what’s really going on.
The tail wagging is more evidence that cats are more comfortable with visual or combined cues from human strangers, de Mouzon says. And they might be especially stressed when ignored because of the incongruity of the situation. She notes that the cats were placed in a room where they interacted with a human who previously played with them but was now completely shutting them out.
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