{"id":216871,"date":"2025-06-30T05:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/why-cats-prefer-to-sleep-on-their-left-side-may-be-part-of-a-survival-strategy"},"modified":"2025-06-30T05:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:03:54","slug":"why-cats-prefer-to-sleep-on-their-left-side-may-be-part-of-a-survival-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/why-cats-prefer-to-sleep-on-their-left-side-may-be-part-of-a-survival-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Why cats prefer to sleep on their left side may be part of a survival strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-cats-prefer-to-sleep-on-their-left-side-may-be-part-of-a-survival-strategy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team that analyzed several hundred YouTube videos of sleeping cats found that they prefer to sleep on their left side. The researchers see this bias as an evolutionary advantage because it favors hunting and escape behavior after waking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team that analyzed several hundred YouTube videos of sleeping cats found that they prefer to sleep on their left side. The researchers see this bias as an evolutionary advantage because it favors hunting and escape behavior after waking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}