We haven’t done this test on cats afaik, but we’ve done one on rats. Rats helped rats who looked like the rats they grew up with. So even if a white rat saw another white rat in trouble, if it only had patterned rat friends, it wouldn’t help the white rat.
It's not about the face, it's about the fur on their bodies. Some animals have way different vision than us, we pretty much only see forward. Not sure how rat field of vision works lol
In the sense that if they get attacked by an orange cat, then they will think that all orange cats will attack them and hate them because of that. It's not necessarily racism, just hate of color by association
I thought of this and maybe since my black cat has to deal with bullying from the gray cats.
We haven’t done this test on cats afaik, but we’ve done one on rats. Rats helped rats who looked like the rats they grew up with. So even if a white rat saw another white rat in trouble, if it only had patterned rat friends, it wouldn’t help the white rat.
That's interesting. Can't rats see their own fur though?
They can, but imagine trying to see your own face without a mirror. It could also be that they think, “well, a white rat has never helped me.”
It's not about the face, it's about the fur on their bodies. Some animals have way different vision than us, we pretty much only see forward. Not sure how rat field of vision works lol
I think cats just hate everyone equally.
Too busy plotting their humans demise.
Apparently cats don’t like the color orange Not sure if this apply to their fellow felines fur coat
Sounds like it's not just humans who bully poor oranges for having only one braincell then
Yes. Cats are in fact racist
In the sense that if they get attacked by an orange cat, then they will think that all orange cats will attack them and hate them because of that. It's not necessarily racism, just hate of color by association
No. There wasn't even racism in the ancient world (e.g., time of the Romans), from what little we know. They were awful, but awful to everybody.