Cats with Deboki Chakravarti - It Was a Dark & Stormy Month

Thanks to Basepaws for sponsoring this episode. Check out Basepaws here: https://basepaws.com/?rfsn=6159575.bff641 “It Was A Dark & Stormy Month" lumbers along with more frightful topics and frightfully bad poetry! This week, an oft-requested and much anticipated topic: cats! These weird little goblins can steal our hearts even while infesting us with behavior-altering, poop-dwelling parasites! We must really love 'em! Need more Deboki in your life? Follow her on Twitter: @okidoki_boki! There you can find links to the myriad of projects she's involved in! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Eclectic Bunny and Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen [Truth or Fail] Fact 1: https://phys.org/news/2021-07-dogs-people-lying.html Fact 2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347296903206 https://theaggie.org/2021/09/14/study-finds-domestic-cats-prefer-freeloading-to-working-for-food/ Fact 3: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/923830 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/cat-genomes/619587/ [Fact Off] Cats in development of cochlear implants https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/1688121 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1931-04076-001 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000348947208100514?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000348947308200407 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4921065/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3220685.pdf https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cochlear-implants/about/pac-20385021 [Ask the Science Couch] Cat tail movements https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/animals-behavior-cats-tail-body-language https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/56/1-2/article-p69_3.xml https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7696400/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2074215/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432897001010 http://www.architalbiol.org/index.php/aib/article/view/138271/ [Butt One More Thing] Cats sitting and not flipping over litter boxes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159114002366?via%3Dihub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .