Why Do Cats Miaow? | Cats Uncovered | BBC 

Dude in dutch its miauw

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We Austrians say Miau.

"intellectuals" "BBC" Pick one

​@@peterdumpel5729 in spanish we say Miau too, but we also use a word for that sound Maullido , is interesting how in other languajes the sound is the word.

Omg yes

Ah, yes, the "question" meow. Love that one.

The "excuse you"? I love that.

yes, that one is pretty awesome

that's called purring

and we do the same to them

And what were you expecting? Them to talk like humans?🤦🏻‍♂️

@@azhanali7270 it's not even entertaining, so tragic

The same thing goes for the dogs. The dogs bark, the wolves never. The dogs emit some puppies noises that wolves don't do because its effective to communicate with humans which have a noise-based communication. And the noises of babies are pretty the same among the mammals, and we are receptives to the sound of babies, probably because grow children take so much time for our lifespan.

Cute ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddnzlZnw-ZM.html

My cat used to do that! She would stand in front of the fridge & meow but put a "k" on the end!! She only did it when she was in front of the fridge, knowing her cat milk came from there! 🐈

How is this top comment? This is too good

For those who want to replay this moment it’s 3:19

.... Mine just screams noooooooo! At me when I try to stop it doing naughty things

Jesus our God

I miss the days when our cats actually talked to us. Now their faces are always in their phones.

KSCIAA 0 "I'm hungry, lol :3"

BlueonGoldZ same what phone does he have mine has the iphone7

Adrifspy041 Adrift Nextel chirp phone

scientists prolly knows better how to spell it :D

X X cats from Australia: ʍoɐᴉW

india: mwaooo

Cats near my house : iiiiiiw... Hmmm

@Treasures of Sin mine makes: nyaa nyaa~

😆

Here we type it like miauw

WhatRDose I always spelled it Mew sometimes meow I have never heard of miaow

Right? I'm like oo I wanna know what a miaow sounds like Until I realized they meant meow

Taylor Kay what if cats speak in different languages... 🧐

@@Laluan jij bent 100 procent Nederlands.😂

'Me too kid'

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Been in quarentine since feb..its june 9th...." 🙃🙃🙃 seen every corner of youtube by now

@@brookekay9824 every corner of youtube by meow. Fixed

How about month 4 of quarantine watching cats meow

Freezy JZL Give me TaHt MeAt Boiiiii

That pussy wants em' meat

LMFAOOOOO

😂😂😂😂

" NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE IS LITERALLY YELLING FOR ME *GIVEMEMYFUCKINGBABY* "

Genius

Witchcraft!!!

No, that's Russia

No. Australia doesn’t exist.

you sir have 29009909099k iq

"help."

have you ever been talking to people in babylaungrage cause you think that they are stupit? i like to belive that is what meow means 😂

CATS ARE MY BABIES

Put some clear packing tape on the parts of the furniture she scratches. She’ll hate the sensation and won’t bother your furniture again!!

@@off_mah_lawn2074 thanks! :)

Tiny Cook Haha keep going until you house is covered in tape!! JK. Our cat tried that, but she eventually stopped doing it after she scratched the tape enough times

My cat learned that too, we put a clear plastic covering on our sofa, but he was persistent and scratched the plastic! He does it while looking directly at us with big eyes

mine learnt to go behind the tv and unplug cables

Keith Price they just think we are stupid

the smallest common denominator

+Claudia Jean Not really, no. It's more along the lines of that they evolved a "cute noise" that they use during their adolescence to get their mother's attention. They keep that ability into adulthood, and since cute things catch human attention rather easily, they learn to make that cute noise to get our attention when they want things from us. Basically, they treat us like we're their parents because in terms of their ability to understand complex relationships, that's the closest thing that they have to our relationship with them. Noticed that babies are decidedly cute? That's because our brains attach us to them (making us think more positively of them, thus making us more likely to keep them safe) by making qualities common to infants and small children stand out in a way that we've dubbed being "cute." Cats imitate this to the best of their ability because it makes us more likely to give them things like food and companionship, both things that make living longer more likely.

+Solaire of Astora Then why do I find a lot of babies to not be cute but actually ugly? Some are cute to me and some ugly.

Solaire of Astora baby humans are ugly! I have never seen one that I think is cute. But I love all the baby animals! They are the cutest!

Omg I needed this laugh

do you think the other cat language is just them talking shit out about us telling other cats how dumb we are when we respond to the noises kittens are supposed to make

Cats with people: gonna be a cuddly fluffy purring furball again to get some food. Cats with other cats: fuck off my territory or die.

Cats with other cats be like hiss.

😂

I'll give you another one. I go to a trade college and I seen him on the last lesson of our first day back after summer and he walked into our 2nd year college class. Now this was a second year class and it was the kids first day. We was all working in our note books 30mins into the lesson and he walked in. This is more common in college as your rooms change all the time. Anyways he walked into the wrong class, it happens and you just laugh it off and say wrong room buddy but he just kept his head down sat at the nearest seat and started taking his books out. Now on the first day you learn what group your in and your told you'll be together except maybe for English and Maths (if you failed them). So after giggling when he walked in we were confused after a few seconds and were like "hey buddy I don't think your supposed to be here what room are you supposed to be in" he just ignored us and finished taking his books out then looked up at us and told us he wasn't. now I was abit stoned (you know how college is) so I just start laughing and everyone is just giving each other "what the fuck??" looks. I'm looking at him and I'm sure I recognise him but cant put my finger on where from. Our college tutor is more sympathetic them some of us and really tries and give him a helping hand and take him to exactly where he needs to go. Our tutor escorts him there then comes back. We crack on. Ten minutes later hes back. Somehow our tutor took him to the wrong room. But he's sure he's meant to be in our room We send him away to the teachers lounge to ask for any of the teachers he's had that morning. He comes back and just waits at the door looking in like he wants to come in then looking away when people look at him. We tell him to come in sit down and pull out his timetable your given on the first day We quickly find out he is in the right room weird huh? He was meant to be in the room 2 hours ago for his last lesson. I didnt think it was possible. Not a single person on earth could behave more baked and burnt out then this kid but he really doesn't Blaze if you seen him from afar you'd attribute him to be a book worm. I don't know to this day how the hell he fucked up as profoundly as he did. Hes not got a bad bone in his body I really wish him the best he's going to need it. He doesn't meow any more he doesn't purr. I don't know if he's been weened off or something but the cat noises are no more. No more misto kitty, no more universal adoration from everyone over his super realistic cat noises just a simple mortal like us all. I thought one day he mightve profited off of his ability. In the mean time it looks like his little kitten hands are going to be worked to the claw because it's plastering for that mon That's all folks

we have several of them here too in 2 school and 1 preschool. Everyone seems to just love making cat noise for other class to hear.

@@firstnamelastname5612 Sounds like he's not only got the noise of a cat nailed down, but also the spirit.

Am just a nigga widda rocket lawnchair so he never said any word at all? Just meow? That’s a mental issue right there.

@@VulpeculaJoy fucking damn right, he wouldn't do much just out of sheer free will. But what he chose to do, he excelled in incredibly

Jayden Bagley lol me

Who doesnt?

Jayden Bagley I meow for no reason at them They be like "looks like my human want to feed me"

Sammya Majumdar Exactly, haha. So many people comment the most common and basic "relatable" shit for likes.

I chirp at her all the time.

@@BamBam-pl2cx will do

@@glanni Will wait

Almost like in German, here its MIAU

Elsa Frost “meow” is a million times better

@@gerbilpmc french: miaou

Better results than the ones we get from spending billions on foreign wars

They meow for food

It is great to try to understand animals...part of our commission to care for the animals.

Worth every penny

@@giantspiderproductions3356 americans really do live on their own little island.

Sherif Ghoneim no they just realised that noise = affection for humans. We would probably meow too if our brains stopped developing at 3 years old

@@dookie3453 but cats live like 12 years

@@dookie3453 yes they have affection on humans for sure... But it was a joke!!!

I think I came off as really passive aggressive in my comment I didn’t mean it

@@dookie3453 never mind my man

Best comment so far hahaa

PierrotBolnezify, Lul

PierrotBolnezify or WHERE ARE MY BALLS

Cat is my king and I'm the slave

@@lees8359 So true :))

Hahaha same

First of all you brits it's meow not miaow

Second of all its behavior not behaivour

behaviour is how you spell it when you are british. Same thing with miaow.

+xFinityYT behaivour and miaow are not words

Me too

That's a good cat on your pfp

That's the normal spelling. Original obviously.

Me tooooo

@@Lightnings no. Fuck off. You're an idiot. Its meow, you uncultured hemorrhoid.

as someone majoring in Biology, yes this might be what I want to do in the future

Weirdly enough I once tried that type of meowing towards a Mother Cat before and she went crazy sniffing me and looking around meowing as well. She thought I was Her kittens or thought they were trapped somewhere,its actually quite interesting to be able to understand animals.

@@iamdone687 huh

@@zNblack00 well especially because it's biology, don't they have anything more useful to research? I would be ashamed of being interviewed for this reason.

@@sarahbasto6520 biology is a very large subject. Someone who is intrested in animal behaviour might not be intrested in cells and bacteria for example. There are so many people who study biology and there is no need to be ashamed of it whatever it is that you do. I find animal behaviour very intresting, but I'd rather stay with microbiology. Just because someone studies biology does not mean they like every part of it :)

LOL!

Have you ever seen the video of the bird barking? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JF48hyKydN4.html I spend alot of time on youtube lol

😂😂😂

*if they bark

HHAHHAHAA

german cats be like "miau"

BBC sure are smart

@@froschreiniger2639 same with spanish speaking cats

@@applemarta14 Really? I thought it's more like "kurwa miau"...

Mjau

That's basically the same with my cats. I got my black cat when she was newborn and she stopped being vocal after a few months of age. She mainly communicates though biting and body language, oddly enough. When we got our kitten back in May, we found that he's insanely vocal. She's started chirruping more often and has since become more playful and more relaxed. I still wish I could get a few meows out of her more often (she has such a soft, lovely meow when it happens), but I doubt it will ever occur. Interesting how a cat with a different personality can shape another's!

Cats aren't dumb, and are less aloof than people think, but also aren't subservient like dogs will happily be. Cats do learn how to manipulate their humans! It's nice to see them learn and adapt.

skywriting33 that’s the same here. I purposely got a second cat that was vocal because our first one was quiet. Now I have two vocal cats 🐈 🐈

skywriting33 I had a cat who hardly ever meowed but I was ten and smothered her with love lol

I notice they will observe you and often will yawn after you yawn. The contagious yawning isn't just a human thing lol.

It is......its the British spelling for meow

Write u instead of ow and you have the German spelling

It's ironic that your name is "Diversity Is Our Strength" while you mock another culture's way of spelling words. xD

@@buzzygrumbleton8386 his name is sarcastic... it's a meme...

@devansh kaushal since when?

Alan Rizkallah sounds like an awesome baby

My cat does the exact same thing! He's 6 now, and i can make full 'conversation' with him, too adorable. He'll come in, start chatting for a couple of minutes, i'll ask him: would you like this or this? And he will answer with another 4-5 minutes of meowing😂💕

my cat does this too! Its so cute

awww

Good for you, you have been domesticated by a cat.

My cat didn’t used to meow before too, but now I moved and all he does is meow and demand things. Sometimes they learn to meow and other times they don’t I guess.

A dog knows the owner is the master. Cat thinks ITS the master. Dogs > cats

But... you just explained exactly why cats are awesome, so your equation doesn't add up. ;)

Yeah I don't want a slave, I want a companion who considers itself worthy to be an equal. So cats all the way, but I love dogs too they are great in their own way.

Dorotea Robnik If I want to pet and adore my dog, he will let me and he loves it. I can't do that with my cat. He's just out for himself. He doesn't care about me. THAT is why dogs are way better pets

Oh yeah and also cat has way more softer/fluffier fur than a dog and it is so nice to touch and pet, well at least my longhair cat.

sphynx cats maybe?

Himalayan cats look kinda ugly-ish

Sphynx cats are beautiful~

nobul and they are independent, which is rare happen to another animals when we pet them...

nobul Even when they lick their balls ? 😂

LOL I was looking for this comment 😂😁 good job! I didn't see anyone else comment on that part! Maybe they didn't notice?!

It's been 1 year since. Are your cats okay now? Still alive?

Are you still here.a year later?

@@alyankhan448 youve only been here for a week lol

Ever wondered exactly what you've been saying to them when you meow back? 😹

legit my 13 year old cat is the same 😂

sir thats my emotional support child

sir my child

give him back pls

This comment section brought so much tears to my eyes😭😂😂

I read this in ProZD’s voice

@@idc5309 ProZD FANN

Uwu moment

Bro what is the compound's name on your profile picture it seems damn aromatic

@@bhanunautiyal1482 It's serotonin :P

+BEEP BEEP BEEEP gta song just wait 'til your Olde, 3am is a regular time to be awake...just not staying up until.....

+BEEP BEEP BEEEP gta song You're learning the ways of the Cat.

+BEEP BEEP BEEEP gta song I´m uploading videos and watching this :D

funny thing is same

+BEEP BEEP BEEEP gta song IT WENT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

I'm in tears XD

LOL

XD

@@hanoisme7858 Hi baby

Ngakak anying😭😭

Wow

How could you possibly know? The Soviet Union hasn't been in existence for almost 30 years and you're probably still a teenager...

@@Josef-EU I'm not sure if you got the joke and are just kidding or if you didn't get it at all.

@@Gabriel-zx3ge Oh, that was a joke? Very funny... I can't stop laughing.

@@Josef-EU u asked for this. ok boomer

UTAU53Yui I agree, it is pretty amazing how we don’t fully understand cat/dog behavior and language, yet they’ve been alongside us for thousands of years. All animals are pretty unique in the sense that they are all living organisms like us, yet we don’t truly understand what makes them “tick”.

"Meowing and being useless" 😂😂😂

Dogs are easy to figure out. They are one dimensional personas.

Getting rid of pests is not useless...

@@dubuyajay9964 You haven´t seen my cats. They catch mice, bring them into the house and then loose interest. It´s always up to me, to catch them :D

100% serious! They even played with each other in the bushes for a while, so I stopped and let them. Then when I wanted to go I just called out to them and they came running to me. I have weird cats ;P

i used to take my cat for strolls in the countryside. One time, midway through a stroll, I had heard some truffle in the dry leaves and spotted a young bird, as i was thinking about catching it, i look back at my cat and he has already started his charge. He made the catch look so easy, disabled the bird and brought him to me. I was so thankful but told him i couldn't eat it. So he ate it whole, feathers and everything. RIP Luke.

My old cat used to do that 😂

***** lol

sounds like a russian fairy tale.

True.

Bites *ZA DASTU*

*_is that a jojo reference_*

+NunyaDammeBiznis they do bark. SCIENCE!

+Danial Shamshuddin ookk ??

Lexi Morrison science: the answer to everything.

+NunyaDammeBiznis Cats learnt to meow without human interference. Dogs on the other hand, were taught to bark. WE did that to them. It's not the same thing.

+NunyaDammeBiznis Actually they do bark.

lol

Mebee give her what she needs when she's not attacking you then ;)

+spidaminida trust me she's savage it's worst when she needs me to play hide and attack with her!

Ach I wouldn't put up with that nonsense ;)

Maybe she's a cat that didn't learn to meow to speak to humans.

German cats:NEIN

NYAAAA >W< >:3 😩😳💦

Chinese cat's: PAN SIZZLING

Russian cat : NIET!

Мяу ;)

+PaPa Blista cute cat name!

Buhahaha!

Same my cat does that too

lmao

+Chris News ola meout

Doctor James GIVE MY SON BACK HOOMAN

Hate this word "Hooman". I wanna punch every grown up ass doin baby-talk...

@@MrZer000 You need a hug. 🙆‍♂️

@@MrZer000 nah it's cute

@@MrZer000 Check out r/doggohate on reddit

That is why I'm going through the comment section.

It sounds more like the actual sound :P

Dude it's miyav in Turkish. I am sure different cultures give different name to their sounds. For example Polish people should name it "miow" or something like that.

Also, the dogs doesn't make the sound "bark" in my opinion. It's not even close.

It is spelled differently in each language, as well as in many cultures, but the words are all onomatopoeias.

They probs you were cheating on them lool

Richard Hudson same lmao

Mine doesn't care at all

My cat figured out that there's no real cat, he doesn't even react anymore :[ lol. I tried letting him watch a screensaver with fish. He just went behind the screen, figured out that it was a trick, and lost interest.

Nick Kohlmann Probably because she's cheating on you with another owner

Φακ οφ

Big black cock miaow?

Fuck, beat me to it. 10/10

Miau in spanish, meow in English, nyah in Japanese. BBC: Fuck it miaow

People who copy each other are boring

Yeah, it's a weird noise. It's like they're chirping at the bird lol. I think they're just over-excited or something, or frustrated like they said in the video.

It's probably akin to us saying crap or damn when something does not go our way.

camillo monaco It’s the equivalent of a dog whining

in another documentary they think that cats create that noise to fool bird and make it easier for them to hunt them 😋🦅 like a tricky sound for birds

Because they know It works

Cats in real life: Slave. Feed me.

Animals in manga are one of 3 things: Tsundere Not yet a character

Maciej Czajkowski Illuminati confirmed

😂

Lol

lol 😂👍

I hear it now lol

German Cat: Meousch

Indonesian : meong

Slovenia: Mjauuuu

Moo

Russian: Мяу (miauuuu)

Philip Meers What kind behaviors make you think she was abused in the past? I’ve heard that cats getting startled easily is just a cat thing in general.

@@cultofgunter881 When I first took Katy into my house she was frightened of women, and would try to attack them if they approached her. My friend who found Katy has since discovered that the woman, who appears to have been the person who abandoned her, has a reputation for treating her children, and other pets that she has had, badly. For a long time she was frightened if I walked close to her in shoes. She would try to hide. Yet if I was barefoot she did not react. At first, I thought she was just a cat that was nervous when I moved too quickly, but it became obvious that it was more. I discussed it with the vet, who said that there was evidence she had been injured more than once in the previous couple of months, and that it was due to being hit, being kicked, or possibly having been thrown against something.

Philip Meers Poor Katy :( , no pet should ever have to go through an owner experience like that.Glad to know that she’s in good hands now. I hope she’ll get over her trauma soon :)

@@cultofgunter881 Thank you. I'm pleased to say that my efforts have paid off. Katy trusts me, and likes spending time with me - sometimes too much, lol, it's like being the mother of a toddler, I've forgotten what privacy is! It's rare now that she shows negative behaviour, so I think she has forgotten the worst. I'm too polite to write down what I would like to do to people who abuse animals!

@@PLuMUK54 you are an amazing human being and if anyone tries to say otherwise I'll smack them.

Supposedly this is why they sometimes leave us little dead "presents" at the doorstep; they think we're too stupid to hunt and kill prey

@@siliconebaby6270 They also sometimes will lick your hair. Cats have been shown to practice grooming of others, so if they think you are a cat, then they will try to "groom" you.

Silicone Baby I really hope that’s true. Because we are

@@siliconebaby6270 we should bring them a dead deer or pheasant and see what they do.

My cat thinks hes human lol

My cat did that. She spent an entire Sunday afternoon sitting on the windowsill watching the birds, and by the end of the day developed the 'ack ack ack' noise (like a clicking almost) and always replicated it when birds were nearby.

Funny isn't it? They must have some sort of language. My cat also goes brup brup brup when she's about to be fed.

Mine does that too. Also when I use a laser pointer and beam it on the ceiling where it can't get it. Then it looks up at it and makes those sounds.

Cats do that to catch them. Copycat isn't just a random term. When a cat goes "ack ack ack", it is trying to chirp to make the bird let its guard down so it can kill it.

Don't look now, but I think your cat plans to shoot a death ray at it...XD ...Get it? When Martians Attack...ack-ack...ack ack...ack...I'm gonna go stand in the corner now.

I think they are beautiful, complex, intelligent and awesome creatures. But not very loving. They don't make good pets, coz they aren't pack animals. They are solo, and don't belong in a family. Raising then as part of family puts them in an awkward position as they instinctively don't really care for others, but having human companionship gets them free food and shelter..

Marquiz Milton that’s simply not true. Cats can be very loving and affectionate. There’s a vast amount of studies suggesting felines are a bonding animal.

Hmmm.. maybe. I am not saying that cats are incapable of bonding. I've raised a couple of cats myself and they were quite affectionate too. i was just saying that they don't bond the way dogs or goats or other pack animals do. it is best to keep an animal that lives in a pack as a pet because their brain is wired to respond to a family hierarchy.

same to me when meow to neighbor's cat

What.

I think both owner & cat are just freaked that there is strange person hiding in the bushes & meowing at them. 🤣

Should have said 'miaow' instead.

Can totally relate minus the bush part. xD

#holdthedoor

kimsmells1 lol 🚶 trapped in 🐈

The Coton #neverforget

What about cats in countries that don't speak English?

Millennium old question has been answered!

oh my god, underrated

🤣🤣🤣

Read it in Hermione's voice 😂

Russian cat: cyka blyat *drinks vodka*

@@cryptic2121 мяу

That's so cute 😍

Wow you didn't assume his gender amazing

@@zejdland not really. I could've said his since we usually refer to animals as male until specified, but I just decided to do it.

@@memyselfandi7782 would've been funnier if you just wrote him

@@calixhomies7965 I'm fine with that.

Thats a mating sound...

That's when they're horny

ah yes the midnight yowl, proceeded by zoomies with the occasional banshee scream

That's why you need to get your pets spayed/neutered

I mean, my cat is spayed, but sometimes she’ll start yowling at night, and she won’t stop until someone gets up to talk to her. Then she’ll follow that person back to bed.

I generally get to wake up by one of my cats going to sleep on my face. Still, I do love them. Baka Neko...

Back to school alex

Hahahaha

Am I the only one who kept clicking the 01:46 thinking he was making a joke

I read this at 1:47am🤤😱😱😱

But it's cute work :3

Built in 3xcontroller w/ rechargeable batteries in the back, comes with or without fur n nails. Plus 4colors.and a calico

Kittie Devaeh No tail? Meh ....

Seriously now that m typing this massge it's 6:04 am

Wtf its 6.05 am here and i got recommend

2.39 am on the way to an all nighter

Lol 06:06 as I read your message Wtf is wrong with us. MUST....HAVE....MORE....CATS!

5:01

That sound actually means "If you don't leave immediately I will attack you"

You should watch lawnmower dog

The other cat: _Ew! I've a boyfriend_

They don’t have vocal cords like us their anatomy is why they can’t talk hearing what you are hearing is called confirmation bias Also your Asian so stop eating our dogs

You’re delusional if you believe the cat actually spoke english right there

Sorry to hear that. The passing of a pet is extremely difficult to deal with. Hopefully, after some time, you'll be able to consider rescuing another cat, or two.

Oscar Leonardo May he rest in peace

I'm so so sooo sorry for you. I'm sure your kitty had a great kitty life with you

Don’t let that stop you from giving love and opening your home to a new cat, hopefully a rescue one.

So sorry for your loss. I have been there.