www-yahoo:spencerthespacer:captaincobaltblr:Hey wait a second, why did cats evolve to attack invisib
www-yahoo:spencerthespacer:captaincobaltblr:Hey wait a second, why did cats evolve to attack invisible things? They were domesticated in Fertile Crescent and Egypt so probably an evolutionary advantage for snakes and scorpions that are hidden in sand and are more noticed by their movement than being seen directly and also all the ghosts and devils. On a more scientific side of things there’s a couple of things I see going on there in number 3.1: Cats are not playing the game, you ever notice when someone’s playing a game and you’re watching, you spot way more than they do? They’re focused on a specific point, and concentrating on what they’re doing, an observer gets to look at all the stuff on the rest of the screen.2: Cats have a wider field of vision than us, slightly less binocular vision but so much more peripheral. Tl;dr: cats are seeing more around them at any one time, much more of said vision is dedicated to the range of area where you can’t see details but you see movement. Binocular vision btw is no use on a flat screen where there’s no actual depth.3: Human visual acuity is great but our brains are slow. Because so much of our thinking is driven by learned stuff rather than instinct, we can be slow to identify things compared to cats which are lovely but dumb, giving them far faster recognition/visual processing of stuff like “O shit a movement!!!”.4: Idk how much this will matter but cats are dichromats. Invisibility in video games is often in the form of mostly invisible, shimmers etc., that are built and designed with the human eye in mind. Cats see fewer colours than us, it’s totally possible that on some older games in particular, cloaked figures are just less invisible to cats. There’s a whole thing of how camouflaged things are often significantly more visible to human dichromats (like people with red-green colourblindness), particularly when there’s a texture difference. Cats may just be better at seeing video-game cloaking. Incidentally the inverse is true too: humans are (usually) trichromats, and see colour well - deer and cats both though don’t really see red. It’s why tigers can blend into jungle and grassland while being orange, same as hunters wearing blaze orange. To a human, orange on a green or light brown background stands out like a sore thumb - but a deer doesn’t really see the difference. To us trichromats, this is very obvious.Dichromats see something more like this. Sorry dichromats in the audience, I can alt-text for the visually impaired but idk what I can do for yous. Also, please be careful hunting I guess?Anyway, have an example with a tiger.But as a result of this, many animals are camouflaged specifically with carnivorans like cats and weasels and mongooses etc. in mind, meaning they’re much easier for humans to spot. But conversely, predators like cats etc. may be more sensitive to movements and texture than us because of that. -- source link
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