Cats Aren't Exempt From the Laws of Nature

Researchers have been trying to untangle just how well cats understand causality, which is when you understand that there's some kind of force connecting two events. They tested this out with baited string where cats had to pull a string toward them to get food or a treat attached at the other end. And they were pretty great at this when there was one string, but if there were two strings, whether those strings were like, in parallel to each other or if they were criss crossed,. The results suggest that cats have some kind of understanding of the causality around sound that they use to predict the presence of things that they can't actually see. It also suggests that they might even have

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