Cats Have 'Timeshares,' Kitty Cams Reveals

Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 15:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Samantha Samantha was not a part of the BBC cat behavior study, but she is still very nice to look at. Evan Kafka via Suzanne LaBarre Findings form one new research project tracked 50 cats in a village outside London Wish I could do the same with my cat! The BBC and the Royal Veterinary College recently hung GPS trackers and small cameras onto the collars of 50 pet cats in a village outside of London. Their results form one of the largest-ever studies of domestic cats, according to the BBC. It turns out that cats visit other yards and even other houses. Cats from neighboring houses sometimes appeared to switch off using the same territory, which helped them avoid confrontations. Nevertheless, the tracked cats still got into territorial squabbles, which you may have seen/heard. In general, the cats had small territories, even though they had plenty of countryside available to them, veterinarian Alan...

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