What do mating cats sound like?

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Two nights ago DH and I were woken by an unholy racket that went on and on for several minutes. It sounded like a baby crying at first, but then we realised there were two of them, and it had an odd synchronised rhythm to it, like a baby and a slightly older child sort of half wailing half shouting, in tune together!

We have woken up this morning and can hear it again, but slightly further away this time so it's obviously not coming from a particular house, which rules out the insomniac musical children!

Exactly that! An unholy racket....

The female cat will scream as the male cat withdraws due to the spurs on his penis induces ovulation - I kid you not.

I think there is a design flaw there somewhere.What was God thinking?

From your description, it could be mating foxes.

Penile spines occur not only on cats but on very many mammals, including chimps and other non-human primates. It's one of the fascinating features of human evolution that we have lost a large number of features in our genome - more than 500 deletions at least - which must have been present in the common human-chimp ancestor, and where chimps are closer to other mammals than they are to us. At least one of these deletions affects penile anatomy. One theory about this is that the spines etc. in other mammals speeds up climaxing, so that the couple need not spend too much time in copulation.

Another deletion in our genome resulted in the loss of a tumour-suppressing gene involved with the neural system, which may have facilitated the great increase in brain size which occurred in the human line.