10 Nov
2003
10 Nov
'03
4:21 a.m.
That's interesting. What experiment did they use to determine this?
I must really like my cat (which I got second hand... he came with the
house...) as I just spent ?450 on that fleabag!
Take Care,
Mark
Bob Shannon wrote:
Off topic, but...
Most cats don't watch TV simply because they cannot see the picture!
Cats have a 'flicker fusion rate' of about 400 hz, as opposed to the
human rate of about 20 hz.
So to a cat, a TV set is a flickering mess. Some cats are able to
'get' the idea and put the picture together, usually only if there is
a lot of motion to track.
But a still image in a TV is nearly invisible to a cat. They cannot
quite see the beam sweeping, but they are far closer to that than we are.