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How do cats know automatically how to use a litter box?

How do cats know automatically how to use a litter box?


How do cats know automatically how to use a litter box?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 01:24 PM PDT

Hello Reddit!

I've had this question bouncing in my brain for literal years but recently I got a cat and now I can't forget it.

How do cats inherently know how to use a litter box? I saw videos on kittens and how they figure out how to use them in like 8 weeks. So they genuinely know how to use it almost from the beginning.

I can't think of a litter box like thing in the "wild" so I'm really curious. Also how do they recognize that as their new bathroom? Like they had to have some alternative to what they normally would use, so how do they know that is where they're supposed to go?

Thanks!

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Is there really no better way to diagnose mental illness than by the person's description of what they're experiencing?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 06:34 AM PDT

I'm notorious for choosing the wrong words to describe some situation or feeling. Actually I'm pretty bad at describing things in general and I can't be the only person. So why is it entirely up to me to know the meds 'are working' and it not being investigated or substantiated by a brain scan or a test.. just something more scientific?? Because I have depression and anxiety.. I don't know what a person w/o depression feels like or what's the 'normal' amount of 'sad'! And pretty much everything is going to have some effect.

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We know that adrenaline allows people to do tremendous physical feats, e.g. to bring a child to safety from underneath a car. When the adrenaline wears off, what's the physical recovery like after the feat? Does the adult tear muscles, dislocate bones and just not notice?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 05:46 AM PDT

How important is the way that we breathe?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 06:28 AM PDT

When SETI detects a radio signal and states that it came from the region of a certain star many light-years away, how do they determine that considering that the signal has taken so long to reach Earth?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 05:37 AM PDT

How did the great plains remain essentially treeless for thousands of years being surrounded by Forests and high winds?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 04:56 AM PDT

Do SSRIs actually work and why is there so much scaremongering about them?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 05:34 AM PDT

Why is there such a popular backlash against SSRI medications nowadays? Is there substance behind the idea that they do more harm than good and that they are essentially just money-making machines for "Big Pharma"?

Everywhere you look online, particularly in various self-improvement communities, you'll find suggestions that antidepressants are basically useless and that exercise and diet will fix depression. You'll find people reporting on permanent long-term damage to their sex drive and their ability to become aroused.

Personally (and anecdotally) I eat well and exercise regularly but my mind is still wrapped up in negative thinking and poor self-esteem. I can't figure out the actual truth on these meds and whether they are worth trying. The level of scaremongering makes one reconsider it anyway.

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Do our buttholes grow more tolerant to spicy foods through time and exposure like our mouths do?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 01:45 PM PDT

How did we figure out that light is essentially electromagnetic waves? What is the history of the relationship between the two?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 01:35 AM PDT

Projecting a star at the elongation between a point on the earth and the center?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 01:52 AM PDT

I am trying to find the alt/az of a ' infinitely' far fake star that would exist right above a certain point on the earth.

So let's say we want a point above Stockholm at 58, 18 deg and then observe it from Amsterdam at 48, 7 deg. What would be the alt/az of the star?

I know how to calculate the values for a star with a known ra/dec but I'm not sure how to translate lon/lat to sky coordinates.

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Do the expenses fuel cylinders from rockets crumple upon falling back down to earth?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 11:25 PM PDT

You know those fuel cylinders that detach from the rocket as it goes up into space? Why do they fall back to earth as regular cylinders in every video I see? Aren't they thin metal sheet cylinders? I would expect them to deform like a water bottle submerged in cold/hot water with respect to the temperature of the bottle (both cases lead to deformation right?). Can someone explain to me what's going on?

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Can an Auto-Immune Disease patient be cured with a transplant?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 11:15 PM PDT

I have an Auto-Immune Disease and cannot find many articles detailing if AIDs can be cured by transplanting the part of the body that is affected.

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What is Topological Superconductivity and what do Majorana Fermions have to do with it?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 11:15 PM PDT

How do you model the height of an object that is thrown straight upwards as a function of time using the force due to gravity and the force of drag? I have tried to work it out before but it confuses me because Δv is proportional to a and Δa is proportional to v. I think I need to use calculus. help

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 06:54 PM PDT

whats glutamate neurotoxicity mechanism?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 10:06 PM PDT

https://youtu.be/r-6VBx2aeIY

i found this video... is this correct? also, how is NO involved in this?

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If we turned off every electrical light in the whole world, would light pollution go away instantly, or take time?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 10:45 AM PDT

How do scientists conclude that some bacteria species are extinct?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 12:24 AM PDT

It seems like something that cannot be stated with certainty, considering even a single bacterium could divide rapidly and cause the species to come back from the verge of extinction.

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How much do oxygen levels vary on Earth's surface?

Posted: 16 Aug 2019 12:11 AM PDT

Most people know that Earth's atmosphere "contains 21% oxygen". But what does that actually mean in various places at ground level?

Plants produce oxygen, does that mean forests have substantially higher concentrations of oxygen than 21%?

Animals consume oxygen, does that mean oxygen levels are less than 21% around large assemblies of animals, such as locust swarms containing tens of billions of individuals?

What about places where there are neither plants nor animals, such as Antarctica? Or just above the surface of the oceans? Are there maps that show oxygen distribution at ground level?

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Are bonobo-like behaviors (like casual sex, female leadership, or agreeableness) correlated with one another in human beings?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 08:00 PM PDT

To give you some background, this possibly ridiculous question was inspired by certain social and sexual behaviors of bonobos.

Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are one of the species that is mostly closely related to humanity. Bonobos set themselves apart from other primates with their enthusiastic usage of sex as a way of bonding and resolving conflict. They are also known for being peaceful in comparison to other primates (like chimpanzees). Moreover, located at the top of the pecking order in bonobo societies are the oldest, most knowledgeable, and most experienced females in the group; in other words (and at the risk of anthropomorphizing them), bonobos practice what people might call a form of matriarchy.

So, I got to wondering whether there might be some special relationship between those or other bonobo behavior patterns in human beings. I know there are many ways this question could be taken, so partial answers are more than welcome.

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What are some examples of how we must compensate for the curvature of the earth in everyday human activity? I.e. calculations or measurements for construction, launching satellites, or any other common process?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 03:03 PM PDT

Got a friend who has hinted at being open to the idea of the earth being flat. I'm trying to preemptively bolster some counter arguments with something real and relatable like, "if the earth wasn't round we'd have no satellite tv, or we wouldn't have to compensate for it in building railroads"(not sure if those are true, just tying to get my point across), etc.

Thank you!!

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How do scientists measure the temperature of particles collided with the LHC?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 10:50 AM PDT

I read an article saying that scientists had managed to measure temperatures of 5.5 trillion degrees celsius by colliding two lead ions at the LHC. How can they measure this? Also could these high temperatures damage the inside of the collider?

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Could scientists measure if the physical constants were constant throughout time?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 02:25 PM PDT

If the physical constants changed in anyway at some point in the past, would their be a way to test or measure this?

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I understand that any collision has a coefficient of restitution that determines how much kinetic energy is transferred between the two objects. But collisions also produce sound and heat. What decides how much of the total energy is converted to these other forms respectively?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 01:11 PM PDT

Do the black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way have any effect on the galaxy's movement/rotation?

Posted: 15 Aug 2019 06:29 PM PDT

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