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It s common knowledge that if an empty box of any size is left unattended and a cat finds it, that cat will sit inside. Tiny cats in large boxes, large cats in tiny boxes doesn t matter. If I fits, the cat says in its little cat brain, I sits. Cats are drawn to boxes, as any cat lover can attest. But why? Nobody really knows. Chris Winsor/Getty Images
It s common knowledge that if an empty box of any size is left unattended and a cat finds it, that cat will sit inside. Tiny cats in large boxes, large cats in tiny boxes doesn t matter. If I fits, the cat says in its little cat brain, I sits.
Cats love to sit in boxes so much, they ll even plop down in a square painted on the floor - and a new study finds they will even choose an optical illusion that looks like a square.
Animal behaviorists tested their love for boxes with a Kanizsa square, which tricks the eye into thinking there s a square using four Pac-Man-like wedges placed in each corner.
As it turns out, cats minds fill in the gaps just like humans, as the four-legged subjects sat in the illusionary squares as often as the real ones during experiments.
The felines sat with all limbs inside the optical illusions for three seconds, which may suggests it is the shape that makes them feel safe and not just the structure.
Our feline friends certainly wow us with their cleverness - they can fetch things, open doors, navigate seemingly impossible obstacles, and even understand basic instructions (when they feel like it, anyway).