• Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I’ve done similar experiments with my two cats. Both behaved mostly like dogs - the mirror doesn’t smell like a cat nor makes noise like a cat, so why bother with it? I was rather surprised with Siegfrieda ignoring it because she tends to watch whatever I put on the computer screen, be it some “cat game” video or even anime.

    That lower emphasis on vision became specially obvious when I showed them videos with kittens meowing. They didn’t bother with the screen, but with the speakers.

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    6 months ago

    I’m surprised that ants visually recognize themselves! I thought they didn’t have great vision and relied on the sense of smell.

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      6 months ago

      Maybe they can recognize their own pheremone “reflecting” and its not so much visual.