“I GPS-Tracked My Cats for 24 Hours”.
A British couple has two male cats, brothers, maybe
neutered. When one of them, Ralph, stayed
out all night, the couple tracked both cats.
Ralph would leave several times a night, return through the cat
door, eat, maybe crawl into bed, and then go out again.
What’s interesting is that the cats remember all the
different locations in their territory, and remember the home. Cats that have been moved have been known to
find their old homes.
The domestic cat ( Sci-Show, which has more than one ancestor) is the
only major mammal that can regularly “adopt” and decide to live with a human
while still essentially a wild animal. The
cat can remember your house, which apartment, and even the sound of your
car. In biological terms, this is a
tremendous adaptation, self-domestication, that gave it an enormous reproductive
advantage.
Carnivores and omnivores (and
for some reason elephants) have found that intelligence (and self-awareness) helps
them multiply and spread their genes.
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