Tasha and Harry in typical pose for warm afternoons. And cool evenings.
And warm and cool mornings, for that matter.
reveals that cats fail a cause-and-effect test that dogs pass (pulling the right one of a pair of parallel strings to get a treat). This shows that cats are not as "smart" as dogs, if you judge smartness by ability to figure out which string has a treat on the end of it, and then pull it towards you. Now, I'm all for oddball psychological studies, and if you hadn't guessed, I am fascinated by cat behavior. But I hope there wasn't a lot of government funding spent to discover that cats "think differently" from dogs, or from us.
Tasha and Harry in typical pose for warm afternoons. And cool evenings.
1 comment:
It was English money that funded it, so not to fear.
But personally I would that federal funding support comparative research of that kind! For example, after observing that cats think differently, researchers could study whether cats prefer naps in a sunny place or naps in a soft place.
I would consider that federal funding well spent!
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