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I'm Jason Goldman. Got a minute?

Psychologist Saho Takagi, a graduate student at Kyoto University in Japan,

strolls into one of Japan's many cat cafes. These establishments allow customers to pay an hourly

fee for the chance to cuddle some cats. They're

popular in Japan because so many apartment buildings forbid pet ownership, but Takagi isn't a typical

customer. She's not there for feline affection, but to probe their minds. The psychology of

domestic cats is still something of a mystery, despite our overwhelming

familiarity with the critters.

They have many skills, she tells me through an interpreter, that are not well known even to

their owners.

Takaki and her colleagues wanted to see whether domestic cats have an intuitive understanding

of cause and effect, but to make it a fair test, they decided

to let the cats use their ears instead of only their eyes. Cats are ambush hunters, and

rely on their sense of hearing to locate their prey. The cats, 30 of them, mostly from

cat cafes, plus a few pets, were shown a series of demonstrations. For example, a researcher

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