408 videos, showing bias towards leftward pose. They claim to have removed the mirrored videos from their samples.
I wonder how you’d structure a proper study on this. Probably obtain a random selection of cat owners (slaves?) first.
I noticed her preference because if I lie on my left-hand side, she is a very happy little spoon and uses my arm as a pillow.
If I lie on my right-hand side, kitty is confused. She will take extra preparatory rotations hoping that one more turn will be enough for the problematic situation to resolve. After some hard stares, maybe an annoyed huff, she will reluctantly curl-up as a face-to-face non-spoon.
He'll work out some kind of arrangement if I'm laying on my left side and he can't lay on his left, but if I'm lying on my back it's always to the right.
It makes you wonder about cat-person compatibility based on the person's preference for how to lie down and the cat's preference.
I'll keep an eye on them and see if they have a preference that I'd missed. It won't be all that useful -- if nothing else, the specific preferred sleeping places of my house could have more to do with my layout than any underlying mechanism in the cat. But I'd kinda like to know if there has been something staring me in the face all this time and I just didn't put it together.
(Anecdotal, but +1.)
On the other hand, she's one of a bonded pair and I'll sometimes see her and her sister sleeping curled next to each other with more varied chirality. Maybe a trusted friend outweighs this effect?
Cats domesticated humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splooting
My tuxedo cat Napoleon is much more dignified, presenting a distinguished catloaf, while crossing his front paws with aristocratic grace.
Step 2 (Optional and not recommended): Become snooty about how to prepare your poultry for being smoked.
Does YouTube provide a way to search and download videos for such research purposes? Or does one have to use some tool that works around YouTube’s mechanisms that prevent downloading?
iandanforth•3h ago
ohxh•3h ago
But, they suggest this is because "Upon awakening, a leftward sleeping position would provide a fast left visual field view of objects", which seems suspect. When my cats sleep on their left, it's their left eye that's obscured by their paw, and their right eye that has a better field of view!
grumblepeet•3h ago
jama211•3h ago
grumblepeet•2h ago
apt-apt-apt-apt•2h ago
Clearly, there is a contradiction. What's mystifying is that the authors seemingly spent lots of time on this exact directionality concept, yet put this contradiction in.
bbzylstra•50m ago
bombcar•7m ago