Felines are known to be extremely intelligent animals and use
mainly camouflage to surprise and capture their prey. According
to a new study, one species of wild cats goes ever further, by
disguising its voice into imitating the calls of its victims.
Scientists observed a new behavior in Margay cats as they
recorded the imitating the calls of squirrel-sized monkeys
called pied tamarins. It is the first time that a specie of wild
cats copies the cry of its prey. The first recording of this
phenomenon was in 2005, as researchers studied a group of pied
tamarins feeding in a ficus tree. They saw a margay near by,
making sounds similar to tamarin babies. This succeeded in
drawing the tamarin “sentinel”'s attention and making it climb
down from the tree to investigate. Four other tamarins joined it
in finding out where did these familiar cries came from. The
margay's attack was unsuccessful in the end as the “sentinel”
realized the trick and warned his siblings in time. But the
astonishing thing was that because o