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One Amazing Fact About Cats
Cats don’t want to work for their food
All the animals — dogs, monkeys, pigs, and mice show a willingness to work for their food. Cats are the only animals that do not.
If you put food in a maze or labyrinth, they wouldn’t go out of their way to get it. In fact, they prefer an easy meal. And their easy meal comes from an open tray.
Researchers who ran an experiment on cats have proved this scientifically. They studied a small sample of cats in a home environment. They gave some of these cats food in a food puzzle, and some in an open tray. It was shown that cats ate more food from the tray rather than the puzzle. Each of the cats had an opportunity to eat food from the puzzle, but none of them chose to do so.
This experiment shows that unlike most species — birds, wolves, and other primates- cats prefer not to work for their food. Why they prefer not to work for their food remains a mystery. And it’s not that they are lazy either — during the experiment, they were very active.
And this is no matter what the age or sex of a cat, these creatures make the same choices.
Researchers speculate it may have something to do with domestication. We know that cats are domestic creatures, and in their home environment, they may be less driven to explore and hunt.
Another hypothesis has to do with how cats evolved to obtain their meals. As predators, they like to ambush their prey instead of searching for food like foraging animals. This may explain why they may not be interested in a food puzzle.
Cats are mysterious creatures, aren’t they?
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