I didn't realise cats are this damn smart!!

[Motorcity Cobra]

this video of cats reacting to cat face filter has me crying.

— M (@miaaselaa)

[Vodkaholic]

Cats are smart for knowing people aren't suppose to look like cats?

[llll]

Cats are smart for knowing people aren't suppose to look like cats?

Cats are smart relative to the op

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[1bad65]

Cats are smart relative to the op

A pet rock is as smart as the OP.

[Outworn]

If they're smart they would've known it's a face filter

[Motorcity Cobra]

I'll wait for the smart people to show up.

[1bad65]

I'll wait for the smart people to show up.

Dont go to any of your family reunions. You'll be waiting until you die.

[giant_king]

Lol I always say cats are spawned by the devil himself.the devil's pet lol

[Motorcity Cobra]

For those that don't understand this. Cats failed the mirror test

Earlier today, Gawker posted a video of a housecat looking at itself in a mirror, slowly raising one paw and looking with wonder at its own reflection. "Smart cat figures out how mirrors work," reads the headline. Let's delve very deeply into a minute-long YouTube clip of a cat doing something weird!

Mirrors are used in cognitive science in a task called the "mirror self-awareness test," or MSR test. It's a controversial experiment, developed back in 1970 by a University of Albany psychologist named Gordon Gallup who later wrote a scholarly article called "Does Semen Have Antidepressant Properties?" The MSR test requires that an animal be given some kind of visual oddity, usually a dot or two of color, on a part of their body only visible through a mirror (often on a part of the face or head). If the animal (or human!) sees their reflection in the mirror and attempts to touch the part of their own body with the unfamiliar dot of color, that animal is judged to have demonstrated mirror self-awareness.

Very few animals pass this test. All of the great apes--humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans--pass, as do some cetaceans like bottlenose dolphins and orcas (killer whales), and a few oddballs like the elephant and magpie. Some other animals demonstrate partial self-awareness--gibbons and some macaques, for example, will sometimes become confused and gesture at their faces, which does not constitute a pass of the test but does indicate that they understand that something odd is going on. A few monkey species, pigs, and corvids (crows, ravens, jays) demonstrate a similar partial understanding of the self.

Humans, interestingly, change in their perception of themselves; before the age of about 18 months, humans have either no or only partial success in the MSR test. Before 18 months, they'll react with curiosity or avoidance.

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Cats have never once demonstrated that they have any sense of self at all. Reactions of cats to being shown their reflection in a mirror vary; some will ignore the reflection, some will attempt to investigate behind the mirror to find the cat that is presumably back there, some will act wary or aggressive towards what appears to be another cat able to counteract its own gestures perfectly. This is a freaky thing, if you don't know that it's you in the mirror.