A new study by researchers at the Agricultural University of the University of Tokyo, Japan identified the pattern of behavior shown by cats towards humans he discovered as owners and strangers they know.
Previous research sugsted cats rely on their sensitive nose to identify other cats as friends or enemies. But is the same task apply to detect humans, was not fully understood. Therefore, researchers in Japan took 30 domestic cats and tested their reactions for a series of specials.
The owners of the cats provided samples of their scents by swabing their underarms behind their ears and their toes. Thesis swab was presented to cats in a tube. And the researchers monitored the time spent in sniffing the behavior and smell samples shown by each cat. They repeated the process with the swab from humans, not knowing the cats, and therefore with an empty broom, or placebo, as a measure to control or verify the test.
Their results indicate that cats spent twice as long -smelled samples from strangers compared to samples from their owners, and they favored their right nostrils on their leaf nostrils while sniffing the swab with strangers.
The research team feels that the choice of nostrils can suit the method in which many animals process new information.
“Dogs, but so many fish, birds, and other vertebrates using the right brain hemisphere,” he wrote in a study paper Published on May 28, 2025, in a journal in a magazine“The left brain is responsible […] When a regular response emerges. ,
Researchers said that when their findings had a sense of smell of a cat, their humans were a tool to recognize, they could not conclude that the smell was the most importing mechanism for cats.
The personality of a cat affects how they interact with humans
Personality symptoms can play a role how cats interact with smells – human or otherwise.
Researchers asked CAT owners to complete a survey about their cats’ personality. He tried to match the personality symptoms that they inspect the smelling tests, in the hope that it would enable them to identify the behavior difference between cats in response to the smell.
He noticed that among male cats, more “deranged” people repeatedly returned to smell tubes, while they rarely returned to a fragrance due to being more “agreeing” as those. No behavior differences between female cats were identified.
Personality was determined using symptoms A test known as “Felin Five”“What has been developed by another research team by another research team to study around 3,000 cats in Australia and New Zealand.
In that study, published in 2017, highly deranged cats were desk as “unsafe, worried, fabble” [of people]Suspicious and shy. “More agreed cats” was desk as affectionate, people friendly and tender. ,
The test was originally picked as a tool to support animal welfare at home, helping owners to create a safe environment for their cats.
Another attempt to understand mysterious ‘moggies’
While dogs are often called the “man’s best friend”, cats have a reputation for having mercurial, free, ignorant cobitors.
उदाहरण के लिए, लीड्स विश्वविद्यालय के एक अध्ययन में पाया गया कि बिल्लियाँ उसी तरह से मनुष्यों के साथ बंधती हैं, जैसे कुत्तों ने करते हैं: “वयस्क बिल्लियाँ विशिष्ट स्वायत्त हैं, यहां तक कि उनके सामाजिक संबंधों में भी, और जरूरी नहीं कि सुरक्षा के अन्य लोगों पर निर्भर हो और कहा,”, “उस अध्ययन के लेखकों ने 2015 में प्रकाशित किया था।
Therefore, although Japan’s latest study may suggest that CATs are capable of recognizing their human company, they may still think very little of them.
Edited by: Zulfiker Ebony
