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Time spent watching cats, in order to learn from them, is seldom wasted. One of the greatest characteristics, or perhaps it’s an accomplishment, of a cat, it seems to me, is the ability to purr.

Purring - gently rumbling on the breath; that low sound, and accompanying tactile vibration, that sends waves through the whole of the cat’s body, and any other body that the cat is in contact with. What calming and beneficent influence, for itself, and on those around it. How the air itself, awash with this rhythmic sound, is cleansed and charged, it seems.

Why can’t humans purr?

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