Apparently, the University of Tokyo ran out of ideas for building humanoid robots. Instead of working robots, they dispatched some “scientific” researchers to conduct tests on domestic cats to determine if cats are ignoring us. The results of this study were recently published in the Animal Cognition journal.
Guess
what?
Cats
are ignoring us.
Cats
hear us just fine when we call out to them or (foolishly) attempt to throw a
command in their direction. As “researchers”
noted in their study: “Cats
do not actively respond with communicative behavior to owners who are calling
them from out of sight, even though they can distinguish their owners’ voices.”
They
choose to ignore us.
I
am a bit perplexed by the need for any study.
One of the researchers could have simply called me and asked me if cats
ignore us. “Yes,” I would have said. And then I would have sent them an invoice
for my handsome consulting fee.
I
have lived with eight cats. They all
ignored me.
This
is easy stuff.
— Mitchell Hegman
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk
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