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i feel in the interest of fairness that i should post this 'article' - i don't think it proves anything, IMO....dogs have owners, cats have staff.

 

this could get ugly.

 

Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test | Science | guardian.co.uk

 

 

Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test

 

Strings experiment shows limits of feline intelligence

 

 

It will cause outrage among some cat owners, but research suggests the pets are not as clever as some humans think they are – or at least think in a way we have yet to fathom.

 

Psychology lecturer Britta Osthaus says cats do not understand cause-and-effect connections between objects. She tested the thought processes of 15 of them by attaching fish and biscuit treats to one end of a piece of string, placing them under a plastic screen to make them unreachable and then seeing if the cats could work out that pulling on the other end of the string would pull the treat closer.

 

They were tested in three ways, using a single baited string, two parallel strings where only one was baited, and two crossed strings where only one was baited.

 

The single string test proved no problem, but unlike dogs (which Osthaus has previously tested) no cat consistently chose correctly between two parallel strings. With two crossed strings, one cat always made the wrong choice and others succeeded no more than might be expected by chance.

 

Osthaus, of Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, said: "This finding is somehow surprising as cats regularly use their paws and claws to pull things towards them during play and hunting. They performed even worse than dogs, which can at least solve the parallel string task."

 

The study helped show the limits of feline intelligence, said Osthaus, who conducted the research while a teaching fellow at Exeter University. "If we know their limits we won't expect too much of them, which in turn is important for their welfare. I am not trying to say cats are stupid, just they are different. We are so anthropomorphic we can't see the world through their eyes."

 

There is just one consolation. Humans don't understand string theory either.

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In a scene from a UK science show called Weird Nature, a group of cats is allowed to frolic in a meadow full of catnip (and ancient ruins, for some reason). The resulting orgy of cat-drool, hypnotic gyrations, and imaginary-mouse-chasing is like a cat rave. All it needs is techno and pacifiers:

 

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check out the drooling one at 1:10 - good times.

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from the same show, i think...

 

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pretty cool

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i saw that this morning, AS - good one.

 

my mum just stopped over to see the cats and bought us a fridge magnet/note pad thingie that reads "if cats could talk, they would lie to you"

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this should probably be in here...

 

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stupid cat pics...