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Why Do Cats Purr?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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How Do Cats Purr?

Abigail Tucker has written a book about humanity's long, strange history with house cats. She says humans didn't really do anything to attract them to us 10,000 years ago when we were just transitioning from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers. So what happened was that cats actually kind of domesticated themselves. They came on their own.

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