Why cats purr is a surprisingly long-standing mystery.
Now we're one step closer to solving it.
By Ethan Freedman, LiveScience, October 11, 2023
[www.livescience.com]

Only cats and a few other animals purr. Here’s the science of how they do it
Jason Arunn Murugesu, New Scientist, October 10, 2023
[geneticliteracyproject.org]
[www.newscientist.com]

How do cats purr? New finding challenges long-held assumptions
Fibrous “pads” in the vocal cords allow cats to make low-frequency
sounds, which they don’t seem to consciously control
Science News, Phie Jacobs, October 2023
[www.science.org]

The paper is

Herbst, C.T., Prigge, T., Garcia, M., Hampala, V., Hofer, R.,
Weissengruber, G.E., Svec, J.G. and Fitch, W.T., 2023.
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies
without neural input. Current Biology.
[www.cell.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)