The mysterious comings and departure of our feline friends just got a short less cryptical . Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College load a grouping of cats in Shamley Green , Surrey , with cameras and GPS tracker to see outhow roaming house cats spend their days .
Professor Alan Wilson , a inquiry scientist and vet at the Structure & Motion Laboratory at the Royal Veterinary College , led the undertaking to capture the wandering movements of the domestic cat . Although GPS trailing has been used to track the bowel movement of wild cats , Wilson explains in an clause for the BBC , it has n’t been used on domestic cats . In fact , he add , we bang less about certain look of domestic Caterpillar deportment than we do about wild cats ’ . So Wilson and his squad outfitted the cats with lightweight GPS trackers that put down data only when the cat was in motion and diminutive cameras .
One of the interesting things they learned about the cats of Shamley Green is that they come along to “ time share ” territory , ranging into overlapping territory at unlike time of the day to ward off territorial battle . They also tended to bide within the confines of the village , seldom venturing into the surrounding countryside . And of course , no two hombre had quite the same wander patterns .
you could see some of the African tea maps below , but theBBC has an interactive feature that allows you to see timelapse maps for each cat , as well as videos of and details about these wandering felines .
cloak-and-dagger life of the cat : What do our feline companions get up to?[BBC viaPresurfer ]
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