Feline Faces: Unraveling the Social Function of Domestic Cat Facial Signals
Published in 2023
Scientific article documenting the various facial signals produced by cats during affiliative and non-affiliative intraspecific interactions. It demonstrates that cats produce a great number of expressions by combining a set of facial muscle movements in different ways. Affiliative and non-affiliative signals are notably different, and it is possible for humans to distinguish between some of them.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Felines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Human-animal relationship, Stress