Daily Cat Lesson #6: Who Is THAT Cat?!

🐾 Daily Cat Lesson #6: Who Is THAT Cat?! 😳

You walk past a mirror and see yourself.
Your cat walks past a mirror and discovers - ANOTHER CAT IN THE HOUSE!

• 🐾 Do cats recognize themselves in mirrors?
  Most cats don't appear to recognize the reflection as "me" the way humans do. They may stare, investigate, look behind the mirror, ignore it, or initially react as though another cat has suddenly appeared.
• 🐾 How do scientists test this?
  One classic experiment is called the mirror test. An animal is given a mark on its body that it can see only in a mirror. If it uses the reflection to investigate the mark on its own body, that's considered evidence of mirror self-recognition.
  Cats generally don't show convincing evidence of passing this test.
• 🐾 But does that mean cats don't know who they are?
  Not necessarily. The mirror test is heavily based on vision, while cats understand much of their world through smell, sound and other sensory information.
  That mysterious mirror cat looks like a cat - but it has no smell.
  Makes no independent sounds.
  And strangely copies EVERYTHING.
• 🐾 Why do cats eventually ignore mirrors?
  After enough investigation, many cats learn that the reflection isn't a real intruder and simply stop responding to it.
  So your cat may not be thinking:
  "Oh! That's me."
  It's possibly closer to:
  "Whatever that thing is, I've determined it's useless." 😼

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