They have very different understandings of "high-res image" and "full size image" than I do.<p>I'm wondering if this is related to a TV show I saw tracking household cats in the UK. I can't remember if it was Derby or not. They did a lot of GPS tracking and showed that cats often 'share' territory by time-sharing; one cat's schedule tends not to overlap another's.<p>There were also TONS of instances of cats going into multiple homes for meals. Sometimes sneaking in the cat door and snacking while the residents were unaware.
This is old news. There is this footage from a family who did this some years ago: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zYF0cejmg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zYF0cejmg</a>
I liked the little captions explaining what the cat was doing. It made it seem like the cat was a robot switching modes.<p>STARE<p>DISPLACE<p>VOCALISATION (GROWL)<p>STRIKE<p>It was like watching Robocat vs. Tooncinator.
Can someone help me find a podcast with a story which I thought was called called "the cat came back". I've scoured through <i>This American Life</i> episodes and still can't find it. Maybe it was a different podcast?<p>Either way it's about a guy who adopts a cat and then finds out, by attaching a camera, that the cat has other lives.
Q: Did the videos reveal any surprises?<p>A: Cats are seen as relatively lazy, especially compared to dogs. But we saw that when they were outside, they became superalert. They scanned their surroundings, sometimes for a half-hour or more on end. And even though cats are highly territorial, they didn’t always fight with other cats they encountered. Often, they just sat a couple of meters away from each other for up to a half an hour. They may have been sizing each other up. Sometimes they would engage in a greeting, briefly touching noses.<p>When they were in their homes, the cats spent a lot of time following their humans around. They liked to be in the same room. A lot of my students were surprised at how attached cats were to people.
Something similar to the displacement happened with birds during vacation recently. I was just relaxing on a porch, and one by one groups of birds would occupy the lawn for a while. It must've been four or five different species, in groups from one (only the kingfisher) to six or seven finches of some sort. It seemed strangely orderly, in that each group seemed to stay about the same amount of time, and none of the groups ever met - the new group would always swoop in shortly after the last one. There was no bird feed to be had there. I can't be sure, but it seemed the groups were actually rotating rather than new ones every time.
This reminds me of Mr Lee's cat cam from back in the day. <a href="http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/pe_cc_u.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/pe_cc_u.htm</a>
I'd like to see what and how the camera was attacked to the cat. My cat wouldn't tolerate anything on their person(?) for anything longer than a second.
Another interesting bit of research recently on cat social cognition: <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/cats-rival-dogs-many-tests-social-smarts-anyone-brave-enough-study-them" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/cats-rival-dogs-many...</a> Specifically, it parallels OP's point about cats being attached to humans (although not the terrified-outside part).
They did this a while back <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOF_2eM4aKM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOF_2eM4aKM</a>
Obligatory "War Kitteh and Denial of Service Dog" from DefCon 2014.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM</a>
Seems like more of a cat adoration project than a scientific study. Unlike other cat cam projects there is no mention of domestic cats predatory behaviour, and how this impacts the environment. Seems like mostly POV for cat lovers.