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Kemomimi-chan vs. Matatabi
The post was tweeted the day after Science Advances's tweet:
The plant chemicals in catnip and silver vine have been shown to protect cats from mosquitoes. And contact with nepetalactol, the most potent compound in silver vine, activates the opioid reward system in both domesticated felines and big jungle cats.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/4/eabd9135/tab-article-info