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The incorrect part about the tweet is that they do it to mimic human infants. They do not. They learned that humans love a little meow meow and it gets them attention, it's confidential that it's similar to babies
My friend had a cat whose meow sounded like an elderly pack-a-day smoker.
Yeah, this implies that every single cat has heard a baby crying. Clearly this is not the case.
Convergent evolution. Their cries naturally mimic the frequencies of human babies. It's not deliberate, but rather there happened to be a creature that lived around humans that worked this way, and now it's a survival trait.