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What do you mean "in the same sense we do?" Pets are good at learning your schedule. They know when you normally come home, or when you feed them, and they sta
by gurchik 3y ago
What do you mean "in the same sense we do?"
Pets are good at learning your schedule. They know when you normally come home, or when you feed them, and they start to get impatient if you're late in either.
Sure, that example relies on another factor as a frame of reference (hunger, or the sun setting). But don't humans do that as well? Our sense of time shifts dramatically when we're kept indoors without the ability to see natural light.
- stefan_ 3y agoThey do not know about daylight saving time, however.
- jwells89 3y agoMy cat has a particularly keen sense for when dinner time is. He starts reminding me at 5PM, often on the dot. One could probably set a clock to it.
- robbintt 3y agoWe actually just had a cat change her food seeking behavior by exactly 1 hour during daylight savings, which allowed us to mostly exclude her internal clock and time sense.