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BIOLOGY September 10, 2018

Why Cats And Dogs Do The Weird Things That They Do

By Sydney Baum-Haines

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We don’t always understand why our pets do the weird things they do. However, when looking into their past (before they were domesticated), we can find some likely answers. Dogs are domesticated wolves, so social wolf pack behaviors explain a lot of what they do. Meanwhile, cats were lonesome hunters, with a variety of adaptations that they haven’t yet lost. Some of the reasons behind these behaviors are quite surprising, like why cats purr and what it means when dogs wag their tails…

Sydney Baum-Haines

By Sydney Baum-Haines

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