Scientists have shown that cats understand physics

Do you think what animal smarter than everyone else? Of course, difficult to answer unequivocally: different animals successfully cope with different tasks. Therefore, recently, Japanese scientists have decided to reformulate the issue and find out what other animals are better versed in the most difficult science - physics. The answer turned out to be nice and mustached: This cat

! The classic test for the ability of animals to find a logical connection between the events taking place is quite simple. First, the animal show two bowls: empty and with a meal. Then begin to move the bowl and hide behind the screen. The objective of the test animal - guess what food will be at the wrong end of the screen in the direction that it was moving, and run to the coveted delicacy. < This simple test failed, many representatives of wildlife: birds, reptiles, and even our ancestors - a monkey.

But especially for cats researchers decided to complicate the test. Subjects cats need to associate the sound source with the subject, who was in a semi-transparent box with a hole. Sometimes, out of the box could be heard rustling, although there was nothing inside. In this case, the cat began to explore the containers, touched their feet and looked very puzzled. < As it turned out, the cat managed to tie the sound coming out of the box, with the subject of departing from it.

This simple experiment showed that cats well developed understanding causal relationships , which underlie all physical laws. So, if you think that your favorite cat behaves strangely and takes excessive interest in the most ordinary things, you just do not really understand what was happening. Rather, he wants to tell you:

«What I see is very illogical. But do not worry, I'll take care of itself ».















via link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-016-1001-6