I believe that cats can smell the measurements of everything haha. I have 30 rescue cats from kitten to adult one. And there is a blind one. I'm so shocked that she knows how to go up and down to the stairs and to everything that is higher, without falling. She is so smart.
The car might not be totally blind. Its rare that a "blind" is totally blind. Mist registered blind people have some vision even if its dark and lighter areas. Sometimes thats enough to know for example the familiar stairs are in front. For humans many prefer the phrase *vision impairment" or "partial sighted" for this reason. True blndness is rare
Today I learned that 'crunchy' (kurikuri) is used in Japanese sometimes to mean grumpy or unimpressed. This was so confusing to me in the translated captions that I looked it up.
Right, all these "optical illusions" are only illusions from a specific line-of-sight (the camera position on every one I have seen) and from any other position, its just a weird-looking checkerboard that looks like nothing very special.
Cats are just avoiding an unfamiliar object (the mat). I have know cats who are spooked by certain doormats. I don’t believe the optical illusion works at all.
In the first take they avoid it because it was a new and strage object to them, not because it's looks like a hole for them. Put any usual new carpet in there they would still avoid it for the first time.
I don't think that illusion fools cats. If they avoid it, it doesn't mean they think it's a hole. They're avoiding an abrupt change in the environment they know very well and naturally cautious cats dislike and are annoyed by things like that. Adding obstacles to restrict or force their movement bugs them, not the illusion. They might even be somewhat wary of this unknown thing but not afraid, certainly not because they perceive a yawning vortex. As they investigate the _rug_ or _mat_ (not the tunnel of doom) we see they do not hesitate to step on it. They give it a sniff and nonchalantly cross over. They don't fear it any more than they fear walking in a narrow ledge 20 feet above the ground! If they decide it seems good for sharpening claws or sleeping on, that's what they do, thoroughly indifferent to the clever illusion!
@@iseeflowershowever black is not a color, its a value, a cat should have no difference perceiving brightness (or lack thereof) of something like that
The way this guy went took the liberty of actually setting up two gates is insane, I genuinely thought he’d hover the cat over the hole and see what it did 😭
@@Camustang You take a statement and extrapolate from it a hyperbole I never intended to insinuate. It's true that cats have more resistance to illusions of the sight due to their heightened senses, that doesn't mean they're immune to all forms of it. And frankly that's a far off statement I have no right to make given the limited knowledge on the subject.
@@Camustang People can't even make comments on things casually these days without some neanderthal coming into the replies like "YOU GOT SOURCES FOR THAT BRO?!" Seriously, how do you even socialize irl? Or is that your whole problem right there?
@@Camustangblud is a caveman.. It a common knowledge that a cat can navigate surrounding with their whiskers. So optical Illusion like those doesn't usually work on them.
Cats a great predators. This required good vision which can tell them distance to prays and things with great accuracy. That’s why they were not bothered by illusion.
I am sure I saw somewhere that perspective illusion is something that is taught from an early age because of the way things are for people in built up areas. I think some tribes people who have never seen taught perspective as seen in a drawing do not actually see it because it's not something they have encountered before. Same with cats and other animals I would say, they look at it because it wasn't there the last time they were at the bottom of the stairs so to them, that's new but they will not comprehend seeing perspective in a flat object.
A book I read about Pygmy people explained how they live in dense jungle where nothing is much farther away than a few feet and they never see the horizon or the effect on perception of far off things. One of them wanted to visit the outside world and a researcher studying their culture agreed to return the favor and take him. When he first saw buffalo grazing in a distant field, he asked what they were and was shocked by how tiny they were ! He might've tried to touch one and was baffled! It took a good long time to get used to and internalize the weird phenomenon.
@@karolinedemon I believe the book is called _The Forest People_ by someone named Colin Turnbull. I'm not 100% sure but that was the book as best I remember.
I am not sure this one even works for cat eyes. But even if it fooled their eyes, they also have ears. They are not bats, but the acoustics of a carpet and a hole should be very different.
I love cats. It was fun to see who would avoid the rug. All your cats are adorable. I like watching stuff like this to see how they will really react. Cute❤
Very cute, but I think they knew it's not a hole for the first time, they didn't wanted to step on it not because they thought it was a hole, but because cats don't like to step on unknown things, they are a bit cautious about every unknown object, they usually have to inspect and smell it first
Interesting and creative this time (2 years ago, lol), but I, myself would not do it more than once for fun because messing with an animal's perception of what is real or not would be dangerous to them, like if the cat jumped to catch something over a hole in real life - Gone! Well-done, nonetheless and you have such trusting cats. Their trepidation was obvious. They are wonderful and are very happy. 🥰🤗😏
What an interesting experiment. Cats so wise to avoid what their senses tell them is a hazard 😊 but clever enough to adapt if they notice new information such as a familiar scent on what seemed a void
Thanks for sharing the experiment. The illusion works best with monocular vision, like a camera. Humans may be confused if one eye is favored over another.
