Humans are more willing to adopt kittens that blink slowly?

Animals | Humans are more willing to adopt kittens that blink slowly?

Animals | Humans are more willing to adopt kittens that blink slowly? Animals | Humans are more willing to adopt kittens that blink slowly?

Paper Title: Slow Blink Eye Closure in Shelter Cats Is Related to Quicker Adoption (Slow Blink Eye Closure in Shelter Cats Is Related to Quicker Adoption)

Journal: Animals

Authors: Tasmin Humphrey, Faye Stringer, Leanne Proops and Karen McComb

Posting time: 30 November 2020

DOI: 10.
3390/ani10122256

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https:// href="https://" target="_blank">https:// style="color:#0000ff;"> https:// style="text-indent: 2em; text-align: justify;"> In the past, cats were solitary animals, but after long-term domestication by humans, they have gradually evolved to provide emotional support for the host
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As a result of living with humans for a long time, cats have gradually integrated into human society and become companion animals as common as domestic dogs

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Humphrey and Professor McComb of Sussex University in the UK based on the above study, conducted behavioral experiments on little cat shelters, and the results were published in the Animals on
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This study aims to study how the blinking interaction between humans and cats affects the speed at which cats are adopted in this environment

Animals Animals AnimalsThis study aims to study how the blinking interaction between humans and cats affects the speed at which cats are adopted in this environment

experiment procedure

Subject: 18 cats neutered by the National Cat Adoption Center (NCAC) in Sussex, with a male to female ratio of 1:1
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test subject:

experiment process:

experiment process:

Experimental group: The experimenter sat in front of the screen window and tried to communicate with the cat by slowly narrowing and closing his eyes to initiate a slow blinking interaction
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When the cat's sight deviates from the experimenter, the experimenter will return the cat's attention to the interaction under appropriate circumstances

Experimental group: Trying to communicate with the cat by slowly narrowing and closing the eyes to initiate a slow blinking interaction

Control group: The experimenter sits in the same position and adopts a neutral expression
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Control group:

The two experiments lasted one minute
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data analysis:

data analysis:

Cat’s eye movements are recorded by the cat’s facial motion coding system (CatFACs), based on the number of individual eye movements and the duration of different expressions (half blinks, closed eyes, and narrowed eyes)
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The adoption rate is calculated from a few days before the cat is adopted, and the longest date is 132 days.

Experimental results

Experimental results

Experimental results show that under the stimulation of human slow blinking, cats in the experimental group have more half-blinks, narrowed eyes, and total eye movements, but there is no significant difference in the number of closed eyes of cats; the duration of half-blinks in the experimental group The time is longer, and there is no significant difference between the time for the cat’s eye to narrow and the duration of the cat’s eye to close
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Of the 18 cats that participated in the experiment, 14 were successfully adopted.
The adoption rate results showed that in the slow blink test, there was a significant negative correlation between the number of eyes closed and the duration of the cat’s half-blink.
Increased, cats are more likely to be adopted
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This study showed for the first time that cats that respond to slow blinking of humans are more likely to be adopted than cats that blink normally
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This shows that the use of slow blinking during domestication may provide cats with an advantage in being selected

Cats that respond to slow blinking of humans are more likely to be adopted than cats that blink normally

Current research generally believes that the sociality of cats is lower than that of canines.
In other words, cat owners are more difficult to serve than Wang Xingren, so there are more stray cats than stray dogs
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But if all cat words and cat words are deciphered by humans, will the probability of cat being abandoned be reduced? The kittens in the shelter are not bad-hearted, they just want to get rid of the wind, food and sleep, so that they can enjoy themselves every day

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Journal Introduction

Journal Introduction

Animals (ISSN 2076-2615, IF:2.
323) is an international open-access journal published by MDPI, covering all aspects of zoology and veterinary science
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Animals adopts single-blind peer review, and the average processing cycle for articles is30days

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