In a certain way, the question of "Why do cats run wildly" has 400,000 views. On a foreign forum, Reddit, a topic group about why animals suddenly have crazy behaviors, also has more than 1 million members. It can be seen that netizens at...
In a certain way, the question of "Why do cats run wildly" has 400,000 views. On a foreign forum, Reddit, a topic group about why animals suddenly have crazy behaviors, also has more than 1 million members.
It can be seen that netizens at home and abroad are full of curiosity about cats' intriguing behavior.
For cats running wildly, there is actually a proper noun in English-speaking countries: Frenetic random activity periods, crazy random activity time, referred to as FRAPs. Refers to the crazy activities of animals in a short period of time.
Why do cats suddenly run around the room?
1. Requires to release energy
In fact, people first noticed this "crazy running" phenomenon, not in cats, but in dogs.
Animal behaviorists believe that dogs behave in this way because they need to release accumulated energy.
So there are similar reasons for cats' "parkour" behavior:
Cats sleep two-thirds of the day and eat freely more than a dozen times a day. These behaviors are accumulating energy. When a cat accumulates a lot of energy, it requires a release process. At this time, they usually have their eyes shining and run around the house until their energy is exhausted.
2. When hunting
cats are very excellent natural hunters. They have very sensitive dynamic vision and smell. Even small flying insects can detect them and hunt them out of natural instinct.
We saw the cat suddenly running wildly, but in fact it might be just catching prey we didn't see.
3. When we are particularly excited, we will express it in various body language when we encounter happy and excited things that cannot be expressed in words. For example, athletes will run wildly in the sports field after getting a good ranking, and cats will do the same.
When a cat sees his owner coming home, or has delicious food or his likes, he will not help but run away to express his excitement and joy.
4. On the exercise of the body, Catster website believes that among cats, whether they are lions, cheetahs, tigers, or cats, they are accustomed to bursting out huge energy to hunt in a short period of time. For example, when cheetah hunts, it accelerates from 0 to 100km/h in 3 seconds.
"Suddenly crazy activities in a short time" itself is in line with cats' exercise habits. When cats accumulate enough energy by eating, drinking, sleeping, sleeping, sleeping, and sleeping, they will naturally choose anaerobic exercise that explodes in a short period of time, and can also exercise their own "tendon flesh".
