{
  "id": 9380367,
  "title": "Researcher finds that cats lie around for a ridiculous amount of time",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/researcher-finds-that-cats-lie-around-for-a-ridiculous-amount-of-time",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-23T17:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Scientist",
    "slug": "new-scientist",
    "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2590148-researcher-finds-that-cats-lie-around-for-a-ridiculous-amount-of-time/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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\"",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}