Cats are afraid of cucumbers! The news spread through the world in a matter of hours and has become epidemic online. It all started with the American video, where the host discreetly planted enthusiastic pet food cucumber. The animal turned and jumped in terror. All new videos with a similar story appears on the web and gain thousands and tens of thousands of views.
Fun, yes — but in the scientific discovery, according to veterinarians around the world, this news does not pull. And cucumbers here at anything. Such a reaction animal has a scientific explanation is called the «startle response». The cat, seeing a strange object tries to run away and to assess the situation from afar. Yes and no purity of the experiment — vegetables enclose the most inopportune moment, when cats are busy eating, and therefore satisfied, relaxed and vulnerable.
«Apparently, the cucumber she regards as the enemy is believed that snakes supposedly reminds them Any living creature that seems hostile to them..» — Says veterinarian felinologist Angelina Sirotina.
Inspired by the idea of cats in the fear of the terrible snake-like cucumbers were checked and in Russia. But Russian cats for some reason they are not afraid. On the 14-year-old owner of a cat Sonya had high hopes, but the star of the Internet, it did not become.
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For the experiment in the Urals hooked just three cats. Well, maybe at least one lucky owners decided. First zero reaction. Too bold is eliminated from the experiment. The rest of the nerves is not steel. The hosts are rejoicing and applause rewarded frightened animals.
Zoologists insist that it’s not in themselves cucumbers and perhaps not even in their similarity with snakes. And in the stressful circumstances under which develops the plot of each roller. And in the personal experience of each individual cat. After all, they like people are even inexplicable, unique phobia.
This cat is called Gherkin. He plays in the theater of Kuklacheva. And famous for his great weakness to this vegetable. Cucumber Cucumber is not afraid, alive and well. The cat is considered the theater, in popular commercials was not without intimidation, and possibly hard of taming.
«There is another video, shot from a different angle, with the same cat and with the same cucumber, where we see that the cucumber covered with cat’s teeth and claws. Bitten and scratched. This suggests that these cucumber animal just cause . on aggression I can only feel sorry for the cat, because we are fun, and the animal is a huge stress, «- says director and leading actor of the Theatre cat Dmitri Kuklachev.
In one of the corners of Moscow live cat phobia — the fear of panic cucumbers — are questioning.
«If the cat saw a cucumber and generally knows what it is, it can not be frightened, but if we make a sharp sound, many cats react to cotton or crack as well as in the suddenly appeared predator.» — Says ornithologist Vladislav Rudovsky.
Among the guests of the corner of the living representatives of the cat there, but the rest are not in awe of the new object in the room.
I rejoiced cucumber hedgehog. For him, unlike cats, snakes — the food, not a threat. Therefore, he stubbornly clinging to their prey.
None of the cats in Russia was not damaged. Rodents and all lucky. During minieksperimenta in the living corner, they grabbed a large portion of food, consisting of water and fiber. They are not afraid.
