Flirting Cats, Walking Sharks, Preventing Cerebral Palsy

We discuss a new app that can translate a cat’s meow into human languages, how the Epaulette shark is teaching us about climate change, and a potential treatment that might prevent cerebral palsy.

Flirting Cats  

• “Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation” by Emily Anthes
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/science/cats-pets-ommunication-artificial-intelligence.html
• “Melody matters: An acoustic study of domestic cat meows in six contexts and four mental states” by Susanne Schötz​​, Joost van de Weijer​, and Robert Eklund
  • https://peerj.com/preprints/27926/
• “The Animal Translators” by Emily Anthes
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/translators-animals-naked-mole-rats.html

Walking Sharks 

• “These Sharks Can Walk, and They Might Help Us Understand More About Climate Change” by Orlando Mayorquin
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/25/walking-epaulette-shark-climate-change/7879031001/
• “Aquatic Walking and Swimming Kinematics of Neonate and Juvenile Epaulette Sharks” by Marianne E Porter, Andrea V Hernandez, Connor R Gervais, and Jodie L Rummer
  • https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icac127/6650877?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Preventing Cerebral Palsy 

• “Study offers hope for preventing cerebral palsy” by University of Auckland
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966360
• “Tumour necrosis factor blockade after asphyxia in foetal sheep ameliorates cystic white matter injury” by Christopher A. Lear, Benjamin A. Lear, Joanne O. Davidson, Jialin Sae-Jiw, Johanna M. Lloyd, Simerdeep K. Dhillon, Alistair J. Gunn, and Laura Bennet
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36087304/
• “Cerebral Palsy Facts and Statistics” by Pierrette Mimi Poinsett, M.D.
  • https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/research/facts-and-statistics/#:~:text=Around%20764%2C000%20people%20in%20the,with%20cerebral%20palsy%20each%20year.
• What is Cerebral Palsy?
  • https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/cp/facts.html#:~:text=Cerebral%20palsy%20(CP)%20is%20a,problems%20with%20using%20the%20muscles.

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