Cats Do Have Facial Expressions

We're Just Bad at Reading Them



"Cats are telling us things with their faces, and if you're really skilled, you can spot it,"

said author Georgia Mason, a behavioral biologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario



"Some people can do it - that means there's something there. That means that cats are hard to read," but not wholly inscrutable, she said.

Women, who made up three-fourths of participants, scored better than men, but not by much. Younger people did better than older people. But the most skilled diviners of feline feelings were people with professional experience involving cats, including veterinarians.

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