The best YouTube channels for your cat (and why cats like them) – Popular Science

Does your cat love birds or old episodes of ‘Law & Order’? Image: Fernando Trabanco Fotografía / Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Mira, my cat, does not care about television. She likes sitting on my lap while I watch TV, she just doesn’t care about what’s on it.  I thought she never would. Turns out I was just watching the wrong things. There are thousands of popular YouTube videos just for cats. I tried one of these on my TV recently, and Mira was interested. I wasn’t expecting that.  But what are cats looking for in a TV show? And is there any science behind the things they find interesting? Let’s explore that, then I’ll tell you a few of my cat’s favorite YouTube channels.  The science of cat TV I mentioned in my article about alcohol myths that my favorite ever scientific study involved a bunch of Germans getting drunk. I now have a second favorite: cats watching television.  The 2008 study, published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science by researchers at Queen’s University in Belfast, involved 125 cats at a rescue shelter—67 males, 58 females, all
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