[goodpoint]

Those videos are comically misleading.

The author acts as if cats can understand abstract concepts and combining words into a SVO grammar. And with dozens of words!

"later morning" "later play [with] dad" "love you mommy"

This is simply far outside the cognitive abilities of cats.

Edit: Confirmation bias is so strong that I get downvotes for writing this.

[vorpalhex]

You're getting downvoted because you are making a strong contrary claim with no evidence whatsoever. It's the equivalent of two kids going:

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yeahuh it is!"

[goodpoint]

Not only there is widely available scientific literature on the topic, but is is also stuff that people should have learned in high school if not before.

Do I also need to provide evidence that the earth is not flat?

[vorpalhex]

Then please cite it.

Citations here should be trivial.

I can absolutely cite and argue that the Earth is not flat - and win.

I suspect you will not be able to do so for this claim you are making.

[goodpoint]

You can search on google or google scholar for 10 minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93animal_communica...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10261-5

https://owlcation.com/stem/The-difference-between-animal-and...

Besides, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Here the extraordinary claim is that cats can understand grammar and abstract concepts.

Otherwise I could claim that birds can play chess and demand you to provide papers to prove the opposite.

[vorpalhex]

I encourage you to read some of these nice sources you have selected. Allow me to quote:

> Such signing may be considered complex enough to be called a form of language if the inventory of signs is large, the signs are relatively arbitrary, and the animals seem to produce them with a degree of volition (as opposed to relatively automatic conditioned behaviors or unconditioned instincts, usually including facial expressions). In experimental tests, animal communication may also be evidenced through the use of lexigrams (as used by chimpanzees and bonobos).

and

> Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler reported that vervet monkeys (now called Chlorocebus pygerythrus) responded differently to different types of alarm calls2 (although some of the calls overlap acoustically3 and this view is currently debated4). More recently, west African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) rapidly learned the novel referent of an alarm call that was given in response to a drone5. Referential signaling is not limited to primates.

You'll notice the parent did share sources! They presented a bundle of them, of actual cats using actual signifiers to refer correctly to signified objects.