Comment on Are humans the only animal that wipes things off?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Cats will 100% “wipe off” a place to sleep or shit or be adorable little assholes. If something is in their way, they will move it out of the way. Same with brushing dirt/dust/litter out of the way
Snow is a special case because it is cold and wet. Moving the snow out of the way will still leave them with a cold and wet place to sleep.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve seen them play with small objects or push things off counters but never seen them fully clean an area of small particles.
Maybe I just never really paid attention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cinner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To add the opposite of this, cats do cover up their feces in the wild very well, and housecats will in a litterbox too instinctually. To hide their scent so they don’t get eaten.
It’s all about needs. Humans became the top of the food chain and stopped needing as much, so we started doing other things. Also in the wild if there’s wind then there won’t be as much on things, dust really only starts to gather once walls are built (or in caves I suppose.)
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I mean, most humans aren’t going to fully clean off all the small particles. Brush enough so that they aren’t in the way/aren’t immediately visible and move on with life.