Like humans, individual cats possess distinct personalities that can affect their capacity for forming attachments. Factors such as breed, environment, and past experiences contribute to these traits.

Unlike dogs, which were domesticated to work for humans in different capacities, the relationship of cats with humans developed rather subtly. The first human beings were agriculturalists ...

But most cats continue to knead blankets and pillows for the rest of their life, to the delight of humans. "In some ways, a pet is like a little alien you have in your home," said Branch ...

On many farms, dead cats were the first signal that cows had been ... to evolve in ways that could allow it to infect humans more easily. Apoorva Mandavilli reports on science and global health ...