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Cat communication

Cats are also known to make chirping or chattering noises when observing prey, or as a means of expressing interest in an object to nearby humans.

While this behaviour was originally viewed as the feline equivalent of song, recent animal behaviorists have come to believe this noise is a “rehearsal behaviour” in which it anticipates or practises the killing of prey, because the sound usually accompanies a biting movement similar to the one they use to kill their prey (the “killing bite” which saws through the victim’s neck vertebrae).

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My kitten, Mickey, has been doing this a lot lately.