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YOUR CAT IS CONTROLLING YOU! | BRITLAB

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Greg Foot heads to Battersea to get up close and personel with some cats to see how they have the ability to manipulate and control humans. Footnotes: 1. Driscoll, Carlos A., et al. "The Near Eastern origin of cat domestication." Science 317.5837 (2007): 519-523. 2. Coppinger, Ray (2001). Dogs: a Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution. 3. Saito, Atsuko, and Kazutaka Shinozuka. "Vocal recognition of owners by domestic cats (Felis catus)." Animal cognition 16 (2013): 685-690.] 4. McComb, Karen, et al. "The cry embedded within the purr." Current Biology 19.13 (2009): R507-R508. 5. J. HAVLÍCEK and J. FLEGR "Decrease of psychomotor performance in subjects with latent ‘asymptomatic’ toxoplasmosis" Parasitology 122. 05 (2001), 515-520 6. Flegr, Jason "Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis: a retrospective case-control study" BMC Infectious Diseases (2002), 2:11 7. Flegr, Jaroslav. "Effects of Toxoplasma on human behavior." Schizophrenia bulletin 33.3 (2007): 757-760 8. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-a-cat-parasite-affects-your-behavior-mental-health-sex-drive Subscribe for more awesome science - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=HeadsqueezeTV http://www.youtube.com/user/HeadsqueezeTV

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