{"id":27582,"date":"2016-07-08T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/your-cat-probably-understands-basic-physics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:53:58","slug":"your-cat-probably-understands-basic-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/your-cat-probably-understands-basic-physics","title":{"rendered":"Your cat probably understands basic physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-cat-probably-understands-basic-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cats are definitely smarter than dogs if this is true. Guess I should change my cat\u2019s name from Dusty to Einstein or maybe Julius.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<blockquote><p>New research suggests that your cat might actually have a handle on some very basic physics, and can use it to help them hunt down hidden prey. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If the thought of your cat being better than you at physics \u2014 as well as being allowed to sleep all day \u2014 is getting you down, don\u2019t worry, because we\u2019re talking very simple cause-and-effect concepts here, and they only work when paired with cats\u2019 extraordinary hearing and eyesight. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The research, led by scientists from Kyoto University in Japan, was following on from an earlier study that showed cats could predict whether or not an opaque container would have an object inside, based on whether it rattled or not. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/raynham.wickedlocal.com\/zz\/lifestyle\/20160707\/your-cat-probably-understands-basic-physics\">http:\/\/raynham.wickedlocal.com\/zz\/lifestyle\/20160707\/your-ca...ic-physics<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cats are definitely smarter than dogs if this is true. Guess I should change my cat\u2019s name from Dusty to Einstein or maybe Julius. New research suggests that your cat might actually have a handle on some very basic physics, and can use it to help them hunt down hidden prey. If the thought of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67002,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27582\/revisions\/67002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}