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Mandu 🥟

feel free to try this at home and film the results*

*side effects may include traumatizing your cats and random face scratches

@yurnidiot Jesus, to hell with the cats *I’m* traumatized by that.

@yurnidiot The SIDE-EYE from the second cat!!!!!!!!!!

@yurnidiot @leah

Es beweist zumindest, daß Katzen sich im Video erkennen…

@m_berberich @yurnidiot @leah und abstrahieren, wie der andere auf dem Video aussehen müsste. Ich finde es sogar interessanter, dass sie dann den Halter anschauen.

@m_berberich @yurnidiot @leah und sie haben ja den Spiegeltest nicht bestanden. Das sieht aber hier ganz und gar nicht so aus.

@yurnidiot
I thought cats don't pass the mirror test! This seems to prove the opposite! Really fascinating!

@hoernchen72 @yurnidiot They do pass it, everything else was a myth and bad science by simply applying the same tests that were devised for dogs to cats.

There's quite a neat doc on netflix about cat behavior also going into those things.

@Andrea "Inside the Mind of a Cat". It's not an attenborough quality of a documentary, but its fun to watch and clears up some misconceptions :)

@yurnidiot @hugo it turns out that cats have their own uncanny valley understanding.

@yurnidiot any info if this was works on dogs too?

@yurnidiot this is legitimately interesting, it implies cats not only pass the mirror test for themselves but also understand that others besides them are in that mirror! They check to be sure and most of them seem confused, but some of them actually seem to understand that the mirror image is modified, which implies they don't just understand mirrors but also cameras? Or some think that the mirror is revealing something about their owner? Regardless this actually shows a lot about cat intellect