A woman who believes she was born a cat has opened up about her life as a feline, describing how she has a superior sense sense of hearing and sight which allows her to hunt mice in the dark.

Nano, 20, from Oslo, Norway, makes the revelation in an interview published on the NRK P3 Verdens Rikeste Land YouTube channel, and it's been viewed 122,000 times.

And she claims to possess many feline characteristics including a hatred of water and the ability to communicate simply by meowing.

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Nano, 20 from Oslo has revealed that while she may look like a normal woman she was born in the wrong species and is in fact a cat

In the video Nano, who reflects her inner cat by wearing a pair of pointed ears and an artificial tail begins her interview with a series of rather convincing 'meows'. She then explains that she first discovered her true identity as a teenager.

'I realised I was a cat when I was 16 when doctors and psychologists found out what was "the thing" with me. Under my birth there was a genetic defect,' she explains in the video.

Walking through Oslo's central station the presenter asked Nano what she could hear and see that a normal person might not.

'Suitcases rolling on the ground,' she says, 'Keys clinking in pockets. People with ice crampons under their shoes.'

Then all of a sudden, she lets out a hiss and takes a step back.

'There is a dog over there,' she explains. 'Sometime I hiss when meeting dogs in the street. It's because of their behaviour and my instinct automatically reacts by hissing.'

Cats are notoriously averse to water, and Nano explains that she's no different. She says water makes herself feel like washing her face like a cat and dons a pair of pink fluffy paws to groom herself

When the presenter asks if she was born like this Nano agrees, saying: 'Yes, born in the wrong species.'

Cats are notoriously averse to water, and Nano explains that she's no different.

'I hate water,' she says. 'Water is like you get the instinct to wash yourself in the face and stuff.'

I can see better in the dark than in daylight. That's no problem

Nano demonstrates another moment of affinity with cats by donning a pair of giant pink cat paws and rubbing at her face as if she's grooming herself.

She's then seen on her hands and knees, crawling around on the floor before going up to the window and looking out longingly as she paws at the wall and whimpers like a frustrated feline.

'It's also obvious that I'm a cat when I start purring and meowing,' she explains. 'And walking around on four legs and stuff like that.'

Nano also stresses that, like the small four-legged animals, she loves to 'sleep in the sink and in the windowsill' although she doesn't comment further on the size of either item.

One of the main advantages of being a cat, according to Nano is her heightened sense of hearing.

'You can hear a lot better than regular people, and you can see much more,' she reveals. 'You focus on things that normal people can't.'

And she even claims to possess night vision.

Nano exhibits cat-like behaviour when crawling around on all fours and meowing. She says she first discovered her true identity when she was 16 years old

She's seen looking longingly out the window and pawing the wall. Nano also claims to enjoy sleeping on the windowsill and in the sink, and says she has superior hearing

'I can see better in the dark than in daylight. That's no problem,' she says. 'I have been running a lot after animals that can be seen in the shadows.'

However she admits that despite her best efforts she has never managed to catch a mouse.

While most people would probably struggle to understand her life as a cat, she's found a kindred spirit in best friend Svien who is also interviewed.

'He has something called "personalities" and one of them is a cat,' she says.

'So you are born as a cat, but he has become one?' the presenter queries.

'He is human but has someone in his head that is a cat, and I am born as a cat,' Nano confirms.

Seeing in the dark is no problem for Nano, but despite chasing after mice she has never managed to catch one

Her best friend Svien has 'someone in his head' who is a cat, and the pair often communicate to each other by miaowing

Svien explains that the pair often talk 'in cat' by mewing at each other.

'Suddenly I start meowing or she does,' he says. 'And then we answer each other and communicate by cat language.'

Nano demonstrates with three quick meows that are supposed to translate as: 'Come on let's go.'

'I understand,' Svien confirms.

Nano sums up her life as a cat as 'exhausting' but says that you get you to living with 'cat acts and cat instincts'.