Do you think your cat only cares about food, and otherwise lies down on what you are doing and where your owner is? Although the behavior of cats is still one hundred percent unfamiliar, a Japanese study showed that our four-legged friends do not care about what is happening to us, they just watch us when we move away from their eyes.
Several cats participated in the research with their owners, and the result supports the idea that animals retain the mental representation of their owners even when they can’t see humans. This brain process can provide a pathway to higher levels of cognitive processes such as pre-planning or visualization.
Previous research has shown that cats are able to remember the expected location of a food and, by hearing their owner’s voice, are prepared to see it. To prove this, Dr. Takagi Saho, a researcher at Kyoto University, studied fifty domestic cats with his colleagues. The animals were introduced to a room in which they were only themselves. The owners called them from outside the room, and the voices were joined by a man unknown to the cat. While conducting these parts of the experiments, the cats showed no surprising signs, according to researchers who were observing the animals with cameras.
However, when the owner’s voice sounded over a loudspeaker in the opposite half of the room, as if it was teleporting into the room, the researchers found from the movements of the cats’ ears and heads that the animals were usually confused.
According to Dr. Takagi, they were able to demonstrate that cats determine their spatial location in their brains based on the voice of their owners. The details of the search are given in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Worthy Published in the magazine.
The result is not surprising. It is to explain Roger Tabor is a biologist, author of several books on cat behavior and the leader of several BBC awareness series. For example, Hungarian TV viewers are We love cats! She was seen in the series. According to Tabor, in order for cats to survive, it is necessary that they scan their environment and map it with several senses in addition to their vision, and based on that, form an image of it in their brains. For example, they can easily determine where they can meet other animals in their area or find their prey while hunting. “If they don’t use their brains, how will they know when to jump on a mouse flying in the tall grass that they can’t see either?” Tabor asks. The role of the farmer in the survival of pet cats is as important to safety and food as hunting and keeping away from other animals to keep the four legged animals alive.
The experiment was conducted three times, once with the voice of the owner of the cat, once with the sound of other cats moaning, and once with inanimate sounds such as the sound of electrical appliances, and the phone ringing. The observed cats reacted completely indifferent to the sounds that did not come from their owner.
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