Why cats are afraid of cucumbers Bashny.Net

With great surprise we found out about Editorial strange reaction to cats cucumber. We are not talking about the food preferences of cats unusually rapidly respond to this vegetable, just standing next to them.

The first video with a cat scares cucumber, apparently, was made by accident. However, animal shows such strong emotions that other kotovladeltsam wanted to see the reaction and their pets. Since the Internet, a host of relevant videos. In order to see the genuine fear cats, you need to shove a cucumber unnoticed when she interested in something - for example, eating a normal diet. And if the cat notices cucumber, already "fit" into the surroundings - it explores it with curiosity and caution.



Commenting on the video, animal behavior specialists say that such a reaction caused by the first surprise: the cat with the same fear would react to another object, which appears in its field of view at once. This item must meet the criteria of hostility. In particular, the cucumber may resemble a snake.

However, this does not explain the curiosity with which the cat examined supposedly hostile thing. On one of the videos suggested cat juicy peppers and cucumber, and the animal is clearly prefers cucumber. Cats can eat cucumbers and without fear.



via www.nat-geo.ru/nature/827070-pochemu-koshki-boyatsya-ogurtsov/