The cats seemed to know exactly what to do. Image Credit: Twitter / b_ru_ru
The experiment saw two cats being provided with a bell that they could ring in order to receive a treat.
The footage, which has gone viral on social media, shows the felines ringing the bells over and over while a scientist continuously provides each of them with a piece of food for each successful press.
The experiment is a twist on the famous Pavlov's Dog experiment conducted in Russia in the 1890s in which a dog was conditioned to associate food with the sound of a ringing bell.
In this case though it's unclear whether the human is training the cats or if it's the other way around.
Classical conditioning. I don't know why, but I feel a bit disgusted by such "funny" experiments. I understand when it's for the sake of science, but conditioning poor stupid animals so aggressively just for fun, it's simply immoral. Modern kitten food is a sort of drug by itself, when combined with aggressive conditioning I don't know what could be the results.
I did something similar with my last cat: Every time I fed him, I rattled my keys. So whenever he was outside, and I needed him to get inside for some reason, I rattled my keys, and he'd be shooting home like a rocket.
I kinda like how the tabby starts ringing the other cats bell instead of his own. Better hide the bells or you'll be hearing them ring at three in the morning.
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