I assume the feral male cat was responding like the baboon for the same reasons perhaps.
Just remembered something funny. One Easter morning I went into the kitchen and found 2 rabbits and there were eggs all over the floor. Mom said they were Easter bunnies and we then dyed the eggs and she hid them in the yard. For years I had the idea that rabbits laid eggs. Then all of a sudden one day I thought “that is stupid, they don't!” LOL!