Researcher finds that cats lie around for a ridiculous amount of time
Feedback digs into important work done in New Zealand into the movements of cats, which found – to no one's great surprise – that their favourite activity is "lying", followed by "sitting"
Michelle Smit, a researcher from Massey University in New Zealand, and her team conducted a study to understand the behavior of cats. They equipped 10 indoor pet cats, 18 free-roaming pets, and 8 semi-outdoor cats with collar-mounted accelerometers to track their movements. The researchers categorized the cats' activities into eight groups: active (walking and trotting), eating, grooming, littering, lying, scratching, sitting, and standing.
Free-roaming cats were the most active, being active for 3.9% of the time in summer and 2.7% in winter. Indoor and research cats spent even less time being active. Most of their time, between 2.4% and 7.8%, was spent eating, while 4.6% to 7.9% was dedicated to grooming. An impressive 9.3% to 15.6% of their time was spent lying down, followed by 20.1% to 41.4% for sitting, and 34.8% to 52.9% for simply lying around.
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