Felinology

(In memory of Felix d. 1976, Monty d. 1988, Jazz d. 1993)

In Nature today, some evidence that cats can distinguish their own names. The cats were tested in their homes using a habituation-dishabituation method. This is in contrast to dogs, who have been tested using retrieval tasks, because "the training of cats to perform on command would require a lot of effort and time." From a quick scan of the article, it isn't clear if the foils for the names were minimal pairs though.