Copycat

Are cats smarter than we think? A paper, published in the journal Animal Cognition, described the case of an 11-year-old cat named Ebisu, living with her owner Fumi Higaki in Ichinomiya, Japan.  Higaki had trained Ebisu to imitate her. The cat apparently has the ability to map the different body parts and movements of the human demonstrator into her own body parts and movements.

 

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