uture research should aimto explore the evolution of vision in domestic cats via the study ofillusion susceptibility in non-domestic feline species like lions and tigers
Would this study work for other feline animals, such as tigers, lions, etc? Does this have anything to do with the bone structure of a cat-like creature? With how the view objects
At the start of the experiment, per the instructions, owners wereasked to place their cat out of the room
Some cats have attachment issues with their owners. I wonder if they had any cats like that who were so focused on being in an odd area without the owner to focus on the experiment
This study was approved by CUNYHunter College Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (DR-Cats-15/23) and an IRB review was not required by CUNY Hunter CollegeHuman Research Protection Program (HRPP) as no identifiable infor-mation from the pet owner was collected for research purposes.2.2. Subjects and housingCats were volunteered and enrolled by their owners via completionof a preliminary Qualtrics survey made accessible on social media (e.g.,researchers’ public Twitter and Instagram accounts) and the project’swebsite https://catillusions2020.wixsite.com/ififitsisits. The 30 sub-jects studied were pets in the homes of the owners, and trials wereincorporated into the average day of the cat and owner (for demographicdata, see Table 2). Owners were not aware of the study’s investigativepurpose at any point before or during the experiment.Fig. 1. Example of Trending Twitter Hashtag #CatSquare (Tufts Univer-sity, 2017).G.E. Smith et al.
the study was done at hunter
Regardless of the reason for their attraction to enclosed spaces, thisbehavioral phenomenon proves to be an excellent tool to study the vi-sual perception of shapes and contours in domestic cats.
If it is something with comfort, why is it something that is applied to domesticated cats? Ideally, a cat that has lived on the street would make due with a close, tight space, or maybe it doesn't, because most cats are indoors and are used to tight areas, while street cats don't do it because they are used to having the whole world as their home, and the idea of a tight space seems more constricting than home?
Carried out duringthe COVID-19 pandemic,
could this study being done during covid impact how the data was collected? With such limitations on human contact with things during this time?