CT proprietor have a lot of questions about their feline companions , such aswhy do cats like boxes ? , why are theyafraid of cucumber vine ? , and do they understandtheir own public figure ? While some of these questions have been answer by scientific discipline , the thing of what cat-o'-nine-tails do when their proprietor are n’t around has remained murky . To get to the bottom of the secret , a pair of scientist in the UK strapped video camera to 16 cats and monitor their conduct .
Their study , co - authored by behavioural ecologist Maren Huck and beast behaviourist Samantha Watson and print inApplied Animal Behavior Science , was intend to be an appraisal of the portable TV applied science . As Huck toldSciencein an interview , the experiment also revealed some surprising data point regarding cat demeanour . One grownup takeaway was that cat may not be as relaxed and faineant as they ’re often stamp to be . When the qat in the study were allowed to wander freely outdoors , they were highly rattling and engaged with their environment .
The study also presents grounds against the idea that catsdon’t careabout their owners . The videos showed that the cats , when household , tended to take after their humans around and liked to be in the same room as them . you may see the doings that were recorded in the video below .
Though similar experiments have been conducted on different brute in the past , there have n’t been many studies that use body camera to observe a range of cat behaviour . This may have something to do with the nature of the subject . When the researchers attached television camera to 21 cats , five of them either try on to shake up or scratch them off . One hombre begin swatting her Logos when she see the camera on him . For now , the secret lives of these more finicky felines continue a closed book .
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