Swedish Scientists Set to Study Whether Cats Have Accents
31st March 2016
Susanne Schötz, a phoenetics researcher from Lund University, is collecting samples of sounds made by cats from Lund, in Sweden’s far south, and Stockholm, almost 400 miles to the north.
By analysing the melodies and tones of cat vocalisations, she hopes to find out whether they vary based on where the cats live.
Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.