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How Do Cats Perceive Time?
Context for question:
Humans experience some fixed time intervals as "lasting longer" relative to other time intervals - an easy example is the hour spent on a personally enjoyable task, like gardening, can be felt to pass incredibly quickly compared to an hour spent doing a personally unenjoyable task, like pamphleteering to an uninterested audience.
We have also found that other animals, unsurprisingly from an evolutionary biology perspective, also have abilities to meta-cognate about time, i.e. to think about time or periods of time abstracted from the present.
An example (though, I admit, not a carefully selected example given the amount of effort I'm interested in investing in this post at time of authoring) is the demonstrable ability of bumblebees to "learn to time interval durations and can flexibly time multiple durations simultaneously" [1]
Given this context plus the context that I love my pets and worry for their well-being more than is likely good for my own well-being, I am kept up at night by the questions not only of their abilities and limitations in perceiving time, but their subjective, emotional reactions to these perceptions.
References:
1. Boisvert, Michael J, and Sherry, David F. "Interval Timing by an Invertebrate, the Bumble Bee Bombus Impatiens." Current Biology 16, no. 19 (2006): 1974.
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