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> Delgado said the food puzzles used in the study may not have stimulated their natural hunting behavior, which usually involves ambushing their prey. I'm curi
by klyrs 3y ago
> Delgado said the food puzzles used in the study may not have stimulated their natural hunting behavior, which usually involves ambushing their prey.
I'm curious what "work" the contrafreeloading animals were doing, in making the comparison. Because yeah, domestic cats are lazy as hell but when a mouse got into our house, our cat was more interested in finding it than getting free treats.
- toast0 3y agoDid your cats want the mouse as a fun thing to play with and maybe eat or as something to eat and maybe play with?
- klyrs 3y agoShe played with it and killed it when she finally caught it. But no, she didn't eat it. But it flips the observation of the study: she preferred to work for non-food (but I suspect there's a latent food-instinct driving this) rather than get a free meal.