貓： cats, kitty, The Cats of Utagawa Kuniyoshi，台灣戰貓；Japan's Love-Hate Relationship With Cats. a 120-foot-long cat-like figure etched into the side of a hill in Peru.

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貓( cats,  kitty) 雖非"十二生肖"，勢力可"不相上下"，甚或超出。

copycat 固然 已有貶意，原意指貓善模仿。或說牠們是動物界模仿人的"祖"。

someone who has few ideas of their own and does or says exactly the same as someone else:

You're just a copycat!

PBS NewsHour

 

Archaeologists recently found a 120-foot-long cat-like figure etched into the side of a hill in Peru. The geoglyph, which experts say dates back to up to 200 BC, is thought to be the oldest of the previously uncovered images at the Nazca Lines, a UNESCO heritage site filled with mammoth etchings of animals and plants created by ancient settlers of Peru.

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According to Peru's Ministry of Culture, the image was "barely visible" and "about to disappear" because of natural erosion and its location on a steep hill. "It is striking that new figures can still be identified, but we know that there are others that can be found," Jhony Isla, the archaeologist in charge of the Nazca site, said to the Spanish news service EFE. "In recent years, the use of drones, which above all allow us to take images on hillsides, makes that possible."

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Source: The Associated Press and Johny Isla.

Science
Ebisu here may be the world’s first literal copycat:



SCIENCEMAG.ORG
Kitty see, kitty do: cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior
Ability may be widespread in animal kingdom

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Paul Klee - Katze lauert (Cat lying in wait), 1939

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