What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?

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• miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Close, but not sideways, no cheek-skritch action

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is the evolutionary advantage?

  Preservation of energy. Anti-parasite behavior.

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By lack of limb and intestinal motion!

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  • JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, autonomous bodywide scratching

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• whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d say the silliness seen here goes hand-in-hand with curiosity and intelligence, which makes them clever and effective hunters. This type of derpiness also earns them a rent free spot in monkey houses. So, dumb as it may seem, this is actually a very fit behavior.

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• death_to_carrots@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, cats are basically liquids, so flowing down the stairs is actually the expected behavior.

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your premise is mistaken. The cat is rubbing its scent glands/scratching its cheeks on the stairs edges, to satisfy an itch and mark its property simultaneously. Sliding down the stairs is merely a benign side effect.

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  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I bet theyre also having fun, because cats do like fun

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The temperature in your house is too high … because your cat has taken to its liquid form.

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• carmo55@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes when I’m really tired in the morning I get out of bed like this, it’s the path of leadt resistance.

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  slinky cat!

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  • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Example of content evolution.

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He wants pets and is using the stair edges to handle it himself.

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• SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Felis Slinkere!

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• slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cathartic?

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• betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s called “de-escatlation”. Just like de-escalation, but with an awkward hiccup.

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• sqw@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i think stairs can just be awkward for cats to navigate too. they are designed for human feet…

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like a sidewinder snake.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … Drunken Tiger Paw?

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  not everything is an Darwinian adaptation.

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• ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tbh, the most compelling idea of why animals play that ive heard is just as a way to keep the body limber and ready. Its like free form yoga and calisthenics combined if youre playing hard

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• ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “On the rheology of cats” is the article that studies this phenomenon, please if you don’t trust my link don’t follow it just search the name in quotes from the beginning of the message (you should never trust the links (-________________-) ) www.drgoulu.com/…/Rheology-of-cats.pdf

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