Excellent memory, excellent reflexes
Cats live next to the person throughout the history of civilization, there is therefore nothing surprising in the fact that they were able to adapt to the people and to learn to change their behavior depending on circumstances. At home fluffy favourites is a wonderful memory and excellent reflexes. The first time he saw any object, animal, carefully studying it and mentally considered to be dangerous, interesting or neutral category. Once familiarized with a new object or phenomenon, a cat never forgets about its properties.
Curiosity is one of the main characteristics cat. Scientists say that one should speak not of idle curiosity, and inquisitiveness. The cat is careful to an unfamiliar subject, it fits very slowly, then touches it with his paw. Once in a new area or room, home favorite thoroughly explores it, and instantly finds all the safe and dangerous places. The safest place promptly chooses for itself as the place to stay.
Experiments with cats and dogs
To determine the duration of the cat's memory and compare it with the memory of other animals, scientists have conducted a series of experiments. Turning a few boxes, they hid under one of them food. The box, which was food, was equipped with a lighted lamp. This box showed dogs and cats, convinced that the animals learned the information, and took them out of the room.
Then the animals began to bring into the room, maintaining a specific time interval. It turned out that the dogs remembered where the food for five minutes. In memory of cats valuable information was kept for 16 hours, and this time period is slightly less than that of highly developed primates – orangutans.
Creative thought
It is impossible to deny cats and they have a creative thought. To confirm the creative abilities of the scientists picked up a group of cats and taught them to move the boxes on wheels. Then high up to the ceiling hung a piece of meat. The distance to the meat was so great that animals were not able to get.
A little jump, cats began to seek a way out of the situation. One of the cats thought to push a box on wheels, to climb on it and get a piece of meat. Her companions instantly picked up the idea and also began to use boxes in order to achieve your goal. The results of these experiments indicate that cats do not so much differ in the level of intelligence on textbook primates, taking in hands a stick and this stick knocking the fruit from the tree.
