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小貓咪的叫聲有什么秘密？

音調(diào)高低分別代表啥？

小貓咪的心思你別猜！

但聽說大部分主人都（認為自己）

可以理解貓咪在說啥

你可以嗎？

When a cat is purring (發(fā)出咕嚕聲), murmuring (小聲叫), meowing or yowling (吼叫), can you understand what it is trying to say to you? Susanne Schotz at Lund University, Sweden, did a research on cats’ language as well as how humans understand the “meowsic”.

當一只貓發(fā)出咕嚕聲、小聲地喵喵叫或是吼叫的時候，你能理解它想說什么嗎？瑞典隆德大學(xué)的蘇珊娜·肖茨做了一項關(guān)于貓咪的語言以及人類如何理解“貓咪語”的研究。

According to the study, when cats want food from their owners, their sounds rise in pitch (音高). If the cats are worried about a trip to the vet (獸醫(yī)), they drop their pitch. She also found that human owners could usually guess the cats’ feelings from their sounds. It seems that when it comes to cats, practice makes purrfect!

研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，當貓咪想吃東西時，它們會用更高的音調(diào)叫；害怕去見獸醫(yī)時，它們的音調(diào)則會較低。研究人員還發(fā)現(xiàn)，主人通常都可以從自家貓咪的音調(diào)明白它們想表達什么！看來，對于理解貓咪想法來說，熟能生巧！

誰能拒絕一只喵喵叫的小貓咪呢！