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Yes, your feline friend really is a copycat – purr-fectly capable of mirroring your every move, a renowned canine expert claims.
The finding comes from Claudia Fugazza, an animal behaviorist at Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University who partnered with a Japanese dog trainer, Fumi Higaki, to do the research. The study was published in the scientific journal Animal Cognition.
What’s groundbreaking is their revelation about cat cognition: Kitty can learn the concept of imitation, not just learn to do a few tricks. So far, Fugazza said, only apes, dolphins, killer whales and parrots have shown they can imitate humans.
And if Felis catus can do impersonations, maybe lots of other critters can too, Fugazza told The Post.
