00:00Did you know that cats can imitate their owners?
00:02Very few animals have been observed imitating the human behavior.
00:05Among them are the orcas, the simios, the elephants, the dolphins and the urracas.
00:10Thanks to a few years ago,
00:12we could prove that cats can also do it.
00:15This finding resulted in a great surprise,
00:17because they believed that cats didn't have cognitive capabilities
00:19to imitate other animals or other people.
00:21In the scientific study published in the magazine Animal Cognition,
00:25you can see the Japanese cat having a great capacity to imitate all the actions of his own.
00:30That's why he was the first animal that showed up to have this ability.
00:32The ability to imitate human beings has been evidenced in very few animals.
00:36Therefore, the authors of the study suggest that the imitation
00:38came out relatively early in the history of the animals.
00:42This discovery occurred thanks to Claudia Fugasa,
00:45an etologist and researcher of the animal's behavior,
00:47analyzed the behavior of a dog that had been trained for 10 years,
00:50to copy a series of actions through the method DO AS I DO,
00:54or your translation in Spanish,
00:55do what I do.
00:56This technique consists in that the animal has to memorize what he does to do
00:59and then it has to replicate when we give the order DO IT,
01:02which means do it in Spanish.
01:04The investigators discovered that Bisu,
01:06a cat of 11 years old, could imitate actions that seemed familiar,
01:09like abrir a carton or a piece of paper.
01:11Then they asked Bisu to imitate new behaviors.
01:14The cat could imitate its own behavior in 81% of the attempts.
01:18This is the first time that is documented this type of behavior in the cats.
01:22Therefore, this ability could be more extended in the animal world than what we thought.
01:26doing than what we eat in the cat being in the cat
01:26in the cat's in the cat's.
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