Social organization in the cat: A modern understanding
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The colony
Relationships, social bonding and signaling within the colony
Female–female
Male–male
Female–male and the mating system
Adult–kitten/juvenile
Importance of relatedness and familiarity
Dominance
Auditory and olfactory communication
Implications for management and care of cats
Failure of intraspecies socialization
Rejection of strangers and selection of cats for multi-cat households
Grooming head and neck
Importance of dominance
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