Mccomb suggests that cats may be cashing in on human 's naturally nurturing response to a baby 's cry .
mccomb提出，猫可能利用了人类天然的对于婴儿哭喊哺育反射。
" Solicitation purring is probably more acceptable to humans than overt meowing , which is likely to get cats ejected from the bedroom , " mccomb said in a statement .
Dr karen mccomb , a specialist in mammal vocal communication at the university of sussex , said that by employing an embedded cry , cats appear to be exploiting innate tendencies that humans have for nurturing offspring .
This particular meow mix-an embedding of her cat 's high-frequency natural cry within a more pleasant , low-frequency purr-often awakens karen mccomb , a behavioral ecologist at the university of sussex in the u. k.and lead author of a paper about that sound published today in current biology .
