#Caturday, 12/20/14: Is your cat controlling you?

#Caturday, 12/20/14: Is your cat controlling you?

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Filed under Caturday, Medicine, Open thread at December 20th, 2014 - 12:00 pm

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Published on Dec 11, 2014 by Head Squeeze
Greg Foot heads to Battersea to get up close and personal with some cats to see how they have the ability to manipulate and control humans.

Footnotes:
1. Driscoll, Carlos A., et al. “The Near Eastern origin of cat domestication.” Science 317.5837 (2007): 519-523.
2. Coppinger, Ray (2001). Dogs: a Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution.
3. Saito, Atsuko, and Kazutaka Shinozuka. “Vocal recognition of owners by domestic cats (Felis catus).” Animal cognition 16 (2013): 685-690.]
4. McComb, Karen, et al. “The cry embedded within the purr.” Current Biology 19.13 (2009): R507-R508.
5. J. HAVLÍCEK and J. FLEGR “Decrease of psychomotor performance in subjects with latent ‘asymptomatic’ toxoplasmosis” Parasitology 122. 05 (2001), 515-520
6. Flegr, Jason “Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis: a retrospective case-control study” BMC Infectious Diseases (2002), 2:11
7. Flegr, Jaroslav. “Effects of Toxoplasma on human behavior.” Schizophrenia bulletin 33.3 (2007): 757-760
8. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-a-cat-parasite-affects-your-behavior-mental-health-sex-drive

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