Your cat deliberately ignores you

It is believed that cats - independent animals, unlike dogs, they allegedly tied less to the owners and seek to distance from them. This is not so - your cat ignores you, not because he does not like: she does it on purpose.

To prove it, Japanese scientists claim that the cat can distinguish the voice of the master (or mistress) of the speech of others. University of Tokyo conducted a research to study the behavior of domestic cats. In the course of scientific research to the fluffy "volunteers" to contact their owners and strangers, and the cat could not see who owns the voice. Animals pulled the head and ears at the sound, and in recognition of his master's voice have been an expansion of the pupils, which may indicate the vivid emotions.

One of the study's authors Atsuko Saito explained: "During the development of their cats have learned to hide their feelings in order to survive." In the wild, a cat trying to hide their illness, not to show weakness, as the strength of the predator often depends on his life. The same make and domestic cats: ill, they tend to hide in the corner and do not let your self. But 10,000 years of living next to people, domestic cats yet learned to communicate with us, and we seem to understand them.



The study is published in the July issue of the «Animal Cognition» just a week after the announcement of another scientist. In an interview with «The Atlantic» Slobodchikov professor told me that recorded communication prairie dogs, and use special computer programs, like artificial intelligence to translate the barks into English.

via factroom.ru