Why Can't My Cat Roar?

Published on June 29, 2017
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Only four species in the cat family can roar: lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars. And zoologists are pretty sure those four species can’t purr. But why?

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