STUDY: Cats Prefer to Watch Human Videos on the Internet

STUDY: Cats Prefer to Watch Human Videos on the Internet

It’s a well documented fact that cat videos power the Internet (a study from broadband research company Sandvine found that after Netflix, cat videos account for the greatest amount of Internet traffic). But what do cats like to watch? 

Until recently it was assumed that cats, when they cared about the Internet at all, would mostly just read financial websites and brush up on their Sun Tzu on Kindle. Turns out, however, cats aren’t all that different from us.

A new study out of Columbia University has found that what cats really like to do online is watch human videos.

“We found that nothing lights up the pleasure center of a cat’s brain like a video of a person doing something stupid,” said researcher Todd Wachowski. “In fact, once we dug into the stats, we found that half of the views on that video of Brian Williams singing Rapper’s Delight are from cats.”

Via iamthegreatwent.

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