Furry avatars of doom

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Science proves it!

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...s-lie-around-for-a-ridiculous-amount-of-time/

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Smit’s team tracked 10 indoor pet cats and 18 free-roaming pets, as well as eight cats living semi-outdoors in research facilities. Their behaviours were grouped into eight categories: “active (walking and trotting), eating, grooming, littering, lying, scratching, sitting, and standing”. Presumably the data was insufficiently granular to capture other cat behaviours such as “pushing breakable objects off furniture onto hard floors” and “inexplicably hissing at one’s human after having previously been pleased with a cuddle”.
The most mobile cats were free-roaming pets: in summer, they were active a full 3.9 per cent of the time, though this fell to 2.7 per cent in winter. The indoor and research cats spent even less active time. Littering and scratching took up very little time, less than 1 per cent each. Instead, overall, the cats devoted between 2.4 and 7.8 per cent of their time to eating, 4.6 to 7.9 per cent to grooming, and 9.3 to 15.6 per cent to standing.
If you’ve been keeping track, you already know there’s a whole lot of day left. This the cats reserved for their two primary activities. Sitting occupied them for 20.1 to 41.4 per cent of their time, while a whopping 34.8 to 52.9 per cent went to the really important one: lying.
Feedback would say something about this, but first we’re going to lie down for 4 to 6 hours.

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-9372/3/2/17
 

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