What does it mean for a cat to sound a throat?

by Eric Han

When you tickle or cram a cat, you may feel satisfied by ringing your throat. However, this does not tell all the feelings of cats, BBC wrote that various things are happening when sounding throat.

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It has been thought that cats shed a throat so far that blood flowing in the inferior vena cava , which is a vein carrying deoxygenated blood to the heart, is related. However, various studies have raised the possibility that the sound of a cat ringing a throat is from the muscles in the larynx. As the muscles in the larynx move, the glottis that envelops the vocal cords spreads and shrinks, and as the cat breathes, the air vibrates and the sound sounds.

Although the mystery of the mechanism that the cat sings throat scientifically is being unraveled, there is still no clear answer about "What triggers a cat in the throat?" What is supposed to be the biggest clue at the moment is the neural oscillator deep inside the cat's brain. What is clarified from the scientific point of view is that the neural oscillator is deeply involved in the act of sounding the throat of the cat and that the cat ringing the throat is not necessarily only happy That is not it.

by Marko Blažević

Marjan Debevere says that he keeps four cats and has a degree in psychology of cats, said, "Individuals who always want to throat are always different, as the places where they want to throat are different when stroked by cats There are also individuals that rarely ring if they are, "he said.

Debevere seems to have photographed more than 3000 cats so far, but says that all the cats subtly differ in the process of sounding their favorite parts and throat. In addition, it seems that the cat has witnessed many scenes sounding a throat just before the death, "When the veterinarian says," This child was throat until the moment of death ", it is happy until the end There are people who think that it is, but that is not necessarily so, "he says.

Gary Wetzman, a veterinarian of the San Diego Human Society, says, "We just started to understand the mechanism by which cats ring their throat, there are many unanswered questions." It is generally seen that a cat sounding a throat is "a sign that the cat shows satisfaction", but there are cases that he feels fear and stress. In addition, Weizmann says that "there is a high possibility of being throat for communication and healing," suggesting that cats sounding throat have various purposes and effects.

by Jonas Vincent

For example, at a timing when a cat has just started living under a new owner, the cat throat when eating food. When carefully examining the new environment carefully sounds throat with loud noises, even when chased by a dog kept in a new house and thrusts when you feel stress, "Because I'm throbbing, I am happy" It is clear that it is not that it is not.

When examining about the thing that the cat rings the throat, there is a subtle difference in timing between the throat and the throat sound, such as "sound when you feed on food to the owner", which can be felt by non-cat owners It seems to be a clear difference. For example, when a cat is going to feed me, I throat with a slightly higher tone than usual. Expert Celia Haddon who studies the behavior of the cat said, "This special sound is like a kitten or a human baby crying. Since we are inherently very sensitive to babies crying , I will react to the sound of ringing the cat's throat. "

Besides that, there is also a hypothesis that a cat has a powerful healing action in sounding a throat. After feeling stress cats are thought to heal themselves by ringing their throat, the reason is that the frequency of the vibration that occurs when sounding throat is 20 to 150 Hz, It is because it has the effect to promote. In the hypothesis, as a "method for avoiding injuries from cats overworking" may not have gained a method of "sounding throat" to keep bones and body tissues in good condition while resting , It is speculated that.

by Mikhail Vasilyev

Ringing the throat is not to bring a good effect to the cat. For example, it has long been believed that stroking a cat is an effective means of "stress dissipation for a cat". It is thought that you can reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease by one-third if you stroke a cat.