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Anyone who owns cats knows they love to sit in boxes. Now a citizen science project suggests they like to seat themselves within the outlines of squares just as much as they would like to plant down in real ones, showing that cats (like their human owners) can be fooled by optical illusions.
The feline instinct to sit in boxes goes beyond house cats — Florida animal sanctuary Big Cat Rescue has shown lions, tigers, leopards, bobcats and lynxes are fond of boxes too. This urge, at times affectionately dubbed "if I fits I sits," isn't limited to 3D boxes — in 2017, cat fans posted a flurry of photos on Twitter revealing that simply taping the outlines of squares onto floors could prompt cats to step inside.
Anyone who owns cats knows they love to sit in boxes. Now a citizen science project suggests they like to seat themselves within the outlines of squares just as much as they would like to plant down in real ones, showing that cats (like their human owners) can be fooled by optical illusions.
The feline instinct to sit in boxes goes beyond house cats — Florida animal sanctuary Big Cat Rescue has shown lions, tigers, leopards, bobcats and lynxes are fond of boxes too. This urge, at times affectionately dubbed "if I fits I sits," isn't limited to 3D boxes — in 2017, cat fans posted a flurry of photos on Twitter revealing that simply taping the outlines of squares onto floors could prompt cats to step inside.
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