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human
ELI5: Two of my cats are mother and child. They are both adults and interact with each other in the same way that my other cats do. Are they still aware of their maternal bond?
gpt
In short - we can't know for sure. We can extrapolate animals' knowledge or awareness of kinship bonds by things like preferential 'kin selection' but it seems like this is easier to ascertain in more strictly social animals. 

As for the whole inbreeding thing - if these were wild cats a young male would disperse and *that's* how incest could be averted.