{"id":572,"date":"2022-08-01T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2022-06-04T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T02:56:13","slug":"mental-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/mental-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t hide from your cat, so don&#8217;t even try \u2022\u00a0Cats&#8217; Mental Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/cats-track-owners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-576 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mental_maps-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mental_maps-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mental_maps-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/mental_maps.jpeg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: S. Takagi et al.\/PLOS One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;Your cat is probably keeping track of where you are, even if your feline friend isn&#8217;t in the same room with you and can&#8217;t see you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientists recently learned that domestic cats create &#8220;mental maps&#8221; that tell them where nearby humans are located, based on where sounds are coming from&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/cats-track-owners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your cat is probably keeping track of where you are, even if your feline friend isn&#8217;t in the same room with you and can&#8217;t see you. Scientists recently learned that domestic cats create &#8220;mental maps&#8221; that tell them where nearby humans are located, based on where sounds are coming from&#8230;.&#8221; More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}