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Cats Are Not Inherently Antisocial Creatures. It’s Just You
Cats Are Not Inherently Antisocial Creatures. It’s Just You
SUMMARY
It is said cats are antisocial, haughty and self-contained animals. But it is not true, studies show it is just a false reputation. After doing an experiment with some cats and people behaving differently in front of them, it has been studied that cats can detect human attentional state and change their behaviour in response. This is prove then, that cats are sensitive to us human.
The main experiment consisted in putting people and some cats in the same room. In the first part of the experiment the person had to ignore the cats. The second part of the experiment included petting and people known by the cats (their owners). This experiment showed how cats spent way more time near the people who petted them and their owners than with the people who ignored them. They seeked attention.
Also, it is known by previous observations that cats prefer spending time interacting with people than playing with their toys or eating their food. Plus they are becoming more and more domestical. All of this proves us that cats are not haughty nor stand-offish animals. It's just a label we have been putting on them all this time.
It is also true, though, that their reputation won't go away anytime soon.
It is said cats are antisocial, haughty and self-contained animals. But it is not true, studies show it is just a false reputation. After doing an experiment with some cats and people behaving differently in front of them, it has been studied that cats can detect human attentional state and change their behaviour in response. This is prove then, that cats are sensitive to us human.
The main experiment consisted in putting people and some cats in the same room. In the first part of the experiment the person had to ignore the cats. The second part of the experiment included petting and people known by the cats (their owners). This experiment showed how cats spent way more time near the people who petted them and their owners than with the people who ignored them. They seeked attention.
Also, it is known by previous observations that cats prefer spending time interacting with people than playing with their toys or eating their food. Plus they are becoming more and more domestical. All of this proves us that cats are not haughty nor stand-offish animals. It's just a label we have been putting on them all this time.
It is also true, though, that their reputation won't go away anytime soon.
LINK OR REFERENCE
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-are-not-inherently-antisocial-creatures-its-just-you/
PUBLICATION DATE
18th January, 2019
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-are-not-inherently-antisocial-creatures-its-just-you/
PUBLICATION DATE
18th January, 2019
SCIENTIFIC SCOPE
BIOLOGY (ETHOLOGY)
TEXT COMMENTARY
Cats have a reputation for being stand-offish animals. But they shouldn't have such a reputation since its a lie they are like that.
We tend to label every single animal and nature in general with a name and a way of behaving. But is it the correct thing to do? It probably is. If we didn't we couldn't learn about them. Then, the problem doesn't lie in the name or the classification by behaviour, the problem lies in us and in our instinct.
Why do cats have such a reputation? It's probably because of the way they are phisicaly. By nature we tend to run away or protect ourselves from sharp objects. We tend to be afraid from tricky things or situations. Knowing this, it is natural and you can understand why we classify cats as haughty animals then. They have a slender figure (most of them do). Their head, their ears, their eyes are sharp, the body and the elegant way they move are slender and cautious. It's almost as if they were saying to be cautious, to stay away in an instinct way of thinking. Also their paws are really tricky. At first sight they are really soft, but then they take out their sharp claws. All in them is mysterious and sharp. For our instinct it's a caution sign.
I think it's normal to think they are haughty and distant if we were basing everything in our instinct. But we have science. We can observe a behaviour and take conclusions. We shouldn't get carried away by rumors or by our instinct alone. We can think, search, learn. We must develop that which distinguishes us, that which make us human; which is not the instinct, but the reasoning. So we should stop thinking cats are the way most of the people think they are. We must do some research about them and then take conclusions. Studies have already proved they are not the way their reputation say they are, so let's wipe out this reputation and make a new one by changing our way of thinking.
We tend to label every single animal and nature in general with a name and a way of behaving. But is it the correct thing to do? It probably is. If we didn't we couldn't learn about them. Then, the problem doesn't lie in the name or the classification by behaviour, the problem lies in us and in our instinct.
Why do cats have such a reputation? It's probably because of the way they are phisicaly. By nature we tend to run away or protect ourselves from sharp objects. We tend to be afraid from tricky things or situations. Knowing this, it is natural and you can understand why we classify cats as haughty animals then. They have a slender figure (most of them do). Their head, their ears, their eyes are sharp, the body and the elegant way they move are slender and cautious. It's almost as if they were saying to be cautious, to stay away in an instinct way of thinking. Also their paws are really tricky. At first sight they are really soft, but then they take out their sharp claws. All in them is mysterious and sharp. For our instinct it's a caution sign.
I think it's normal to think they are haughty and distant if we were basing everything in our instinct. But we have science. We can observe a behaviour and take conclusions. We shouldn't get carried away by rumors or by our instinct alone. We can think, search, learn. We must develop that which distinguishes us, that which make us human; which is not the instinct, but the reasoning. So we should stop thinking cats are the way most of the people think they are. We must do some research about them and then take conclusions. Studies have already proved they are not the way their reputation say they are, so let's wipe out this reputation and make a new one by changing our way of thinking.
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