#how animals work

[sandybrett]

The idea that shrimp see colors we don't has been debunked--they have more types of color receptors, but they can't combine them nearly as well as we can so they actually see fewer colors.

But damn did that misconception lead to a useful way to describe things that are otherwise impossible to describe.

[sandybrett]

I have a strange question.

Lossy audio compression formats work by cutting out frequencies that are difficult for humans to hear. Most humans cannot easily hear the difference between a medium-quality mp3 and a lossless audio file. But cats can hear higher frequencies than we can, so to them, even a high quality lossy file could sound quite different from the original.

I do not currently have a cat, but I hope to have cats someday, and I want to play some songs from my music collection for them to see what they think. My music collection is rather large and I would prefer not to have too many FLAC files.

Does anyone have any idea which lossy audio format(s) would create the best potential listening experience for a cat?

[akutatchi-moved]

i drew an anatomically fucked up cat earlier and its the worst thing ive ever seen