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Visual Communication

Lecture Notes

The cat has a very wide range of body postures and facial expressions that are used to communicate with other cats and with their human caretakers. Most of these communication patterns are usually agonistic or distance displays—so distance-increasing or affiliative behaviors—distance-decreasing.

Once again, there's no dominance or submissive signaling in the cat. The cat had no reason to evolve these behaviors.