Why cats are so weird habits?

Cat ancestors learned to hunt and hunter - and your pet still walks around as if you were in the jungle.

                   

Inside a drawer of the shelf or under the mobile high, you see two pairs of bright eyes standing out in the darkness. It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie, but it is an everyday experience for those who have cats and for the millions of fans who turn the cats videos on Youtube great sensations.

Cats have been persecuted because they were associated with witches and black magic, but the strange behavior of pussies have scientific explanations. A professor at the University of Ohio, USA, in a video for the TED-Ed program, reported the oddities of your pet with how the species evolved. Tony Buffington specializes in veterinary clinic and founded the project "Indoor Pet Iniative" which is dedicated to studying pets that live indoors and find ways to improve on their day.

It started before the cats become pets. In the jungle, they had an interesting position in the food chain: they were at the same time, small animals from predators and meal for the larger, and therefore depended on powerful instincts, both defense and attack. Today, still see your living room as a battlefield.


Climbers cabinet

Cats evolved your balance and your muscle structure to can climb trees. The climbing ability was a big advantage in the jungle: allowed analyze the entire environment around and decide clearly what was the best game of choice, or the best escape route if avistasse a predator.

An apartment probably has no coyotes on the prowl, but the habit was and cats maintained their preference for surveillance on high - this is what you see every time your cat up in the closet.

                 

Always alert

The wildlife also taught the feline species that one must always take that food is available. Therefore, cats generally eat little, but several times per day and even at dawn. Before the feed, they relied on small animals for food, which required speed, agility and precision.

When you give a small toy to the cat, he will not see the object as a little friend, but as a fighter. Just as pussy would prey, it uses a four-step strategy: peek, to strike, kill and eat. Even if it is a rubber pet, cat joke is also training


It was not me, it was my instinct

The monitoring and constant preparation increased the chances of survival in the jungle cat - and ruined the chances of survival of their furniture. All cat instincts lead him to always be ready to attack - and that includes the grip, essential for self-defense and hunting.

Sharpen the claws has a relaxing effect on animals and helps to stretch your muscles. This positive feedback from the body takes the pussies to scratch everything they see ahead, regardless of how much you paid in the new curtains.


Curiosity boxed cat

If you watched Tom and Jerry, knows holes and small spaces are good hiding places of prey from predators. The hunting instinct (him again) today explains the uncontrollable curiosity of cats tweak holes, boxes, bags, drawers?

On the other hand, the simultaneous condition of hunting and hunter, feral cats took advantage of the same techniques to hide from larger animals it. Therefore, they are experts in cower in unusual places - learned from the ancestors that tight is synonymous with insurance.

Discretion inherited by cats also explains why they do not like smelly litter boxes. In the past, the smell might attract predators and reveal their position.

                   



The final mystery

If some oddities science explained, other is still far from fully understand. An open question is the purring of cats. They make these sounds when they are happy, in pain or hungry, so no one knows exactly what motivates the noise.

One possibility is that, in addition to expressing emotions, purring is therapeutic. Cats purr for yourself when they are stressed or injured other cats, which seems to have a relaxing effect. But it is possible that there are also physical consequences. Cats purr at a frequency of 26 Hz When we do heavy exercise, the frequency of shock waves helps strengthen bones. - And now scientists are investigating whether the purr can have the same effect and to regenerate tissues.

Whether or not an effect on health, do not let the Purring get inside your head: there is evidence that the pussies adapt the sound to remember a crying baby and convince the owner to do what they want.