DISPENSARY CORNER 17 March 16
March 14, 2016
A prison in the US state of
Virginia has banned inmates
from receiving personal photos,
after guards found some of them
chewing on the pictures that had
been soaked in drugs.
According to the Roanoake
Times, the superintendent of
Western Virginia Regional Jail,
Bobby Russell, said the photos
had been soaked in suboxone,
used to treat narcotic addiction.
Incredibly, previous incidents
of suboxone soaking had already
seen officials ban all non-white
paper and any paintings or
drawings because some had been
found to be similarly adulterated.
SCIENTISTS in Sweden are
putting their considerable talents
to work by launching a project to
figure out what cats are saying.
The five year research program
at Lund University will see
phonetics experts aim to “crack
the feline code,” by recording up
to 50 cats in a range of locations
to see how their mood affects the
sounds they make.
“It seems that cats can vary the
intonation or melody consciously,
perhaps to convey a certain
message or increase the urgency
of a message or to convey
emotion,” said lead researcher
Susanne Schotz.
“I have found with my cats
they have a different sound in
their melody when they are
sad compared to when they are
happy,” she said.
One of the key outcomes is
to discover how cats perceive
human speech, and whether
they like pet-directed messages
“or prefer to be spoken to like
human adults,” Dr Schotz added,
according to a report in the UK
Telegraph newspaper.
The report didn’t say how many
cats Dr Schotz has at home.
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