[meteorite-list] OT - Happy New Year with Cats

[Paul]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Let start the new Year with some cat news.

Cats' dazzling eye colors may come from 1 unusual ancestor
News By Patrick Pester, Live Science, November, 2023
https://www.livescience.com/animals/cats/cats-dazzling-eye-colors-may-come-from-1-unusual-ancestor

The open access preprint is:

Tabin, J.A. and Chiasson, K.A., 2023. Evolutionary
Insights Into Felidae Iris Color Through Ancestral
State Reconstruction. bioRxiv, pp.2023-03.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.20.533527v2.abstract

Also, there is:

Cats have nearly 300 facial expressions,
including a 'play face' they share with humans
By Jennifer Nalewicki, Live Science, October 30, 2023
https://www.livescience.com/animals/cats/cats-have-nearly-300-facial-expressions-including-a-play-face-they-share-withhumans

The paywalled paper is:

Scott, L. and Florkiewicz, B.N., 2023. Feline faces:
Unraveling the social function of domestic cat facial
signals. Behavioural Processes, p.104959.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635723001419

Yours,

Paul H.