The infographic below explains what I mean in the title. I see a lot of online news media writers in particular getting this entirely wrong. They impliedly criticise the domestic cat for sleeping 18 hours a day which indicates slothfulness and indolence. You’ll also see it on social media and the big forum websites like Reddit which Google thinks is a fine source of information.
People are human-centric (the world revolves around humans – it is a human world and the other animals are accessories) which naturally tends to lead to assessing animal behaviour in a human context which is plainly incorrect.
