A study published in the Journal Behavioral Processes found that cats actually express their happiness or aggressiveness through facial expressions.

<div class="block">A study published in the Journal Behavioral Processes found that cats actually express their happiness or aggressiveness through facial expressions.</div>

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Study: Cats Share Feelings Via Expressions

So a new study is setting light on the feelings of our feline friends. The study published in the journal behavioral processes found that cats actually express themselves their happiness or aggressiveness through facial ex es. The study reviewed over 100 hours of cat footage. The study found when a cat is happy, they typically move their whiskers and ears out and forward and sometimes close their eyes. Now, when cats were unhappy or feeling threatened, they would flatten their ears, lick their lips and constrict their eyes. You know, essentially they gave you the side eye. The team have a 276 facial expressions and they determined 46% of them were friendly expressions. 37 were aggressive, look at those eyes and the remaining 17% were labeled ambiguous, but I don't know about that one. Look at that scratch.