observational learning – Page 2

Cat uses pedestrian crossing like a human – learned or coincidence?

March 25, 2022 by Michael Broad

Cat uses a pedestrian crossing like a human

The reason why I have said that this cat uses the pedestrian crossing like a human is because they wait at one end of the pedestrian crossing until the traffic comes to a halt. Then they trot over to the other side. There is no darting across. It is as if this cat has …

If a mother cat is not around to train her kittens, how does it impact their personalities?

November 30, 2021 by Michael Broad

Carol's kitten as rescued and then 12 years later

The question is asked by Carol Chapell on the Internet. She actually answers the question herself. In this instance, a kitten’s mother was tragically killed in a road traffic accident. The 10-day-old kitten came up to Carol screaming at the top of her voice. It was a demand to be adopted. I love that …

Why does a kitten sometimes throw a toy into the air when playing?

July 1, 2021 by Michael Broad

Kitten eyes up a ball which is going to be a pretend fish to throw into the air

A kitten will sometimes throw a toy into the air when playing as an instinctive fishing action.

Kitten raised on a military base learned to march

June 29, 2021 by Michael Broad

This is not only a cute cat video but an instructive one as well. It tells us a lot about how cats learn. The video occurred on December 2017 at Manisa, Turkey. The video caption says that the man who made the video did so 4 years ago on a Turkish military base. The …

Cat waves around a cat tease for human use in order to play

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 by Michael Broad

Cat uses cat tease for human use to entertain himself

This is a classic case, yet again, of a domestic cat learning how to do things by watching their human caretaker. You know that the classic cat tease is a feather on a stick which a person waves in front of their cat which stimulates the cat to attack the feather as if it …

Reason why ‘guardian angel’ cat stops toddler from grabbing balcony railings

February 3, 2022January 26, 2021 by Michael Broad

Cat acting as mom to this toddler as she has learned the behavior by observation

This is an interesting video because it tells us a lot about the relationship between domestic cats and their owners and the relationship between domestic cats and babies and toddlers in the home. When domestic cats are fully integrated into a family home they can have a relationship that we see in the video …

Cat uses Ring Doorbell to get in

December 14, 2020 by Michael Broad

Winston, a grey-and-white tabby cat, prefers to use the Ring Doorbell than his catflap! But let’s be clear, this is not the first time that a cat has used a doorbell. You only have to go to YouTube to see quite a number of self-trained, educated domestic cats who like to use doorbells to …

Domestic cat copies a human’s hand movement

November 10, 2020 by Michael Broad

This is a good example, provided the video is genuine which I believe it is, of a young domestic cat copying the hand movements of his/her human companion and caregiver. The human taps her hand and her tabby cat copies the movement directly and immediately. In a way it is quite startling to see …

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