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(Health-NewsWire.Net, December 11, 2015 ) A team of researchers were in a mission to find out what house-cats are up to while they are outdoors roaming around. The team includes researchers from North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University.
The Cat tracker project – a new tracking solution for your cats
The research began last year with dozens of cats equipped with GPS devices. Most of the cats in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, but there are also several in Charlotte and elsewhere in the state.
The main aim of these researchers were to convince the owners of over 1,000 kitties to participate in the project, which would provide promising results on cat behavior.
The current research project was prompted by a highly controversial 2012 study published in Nature Communications, that suggested outdoors cats kill somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 million birds each year, plus 6.9 to 20.7 million small prey animals.
GPS trackers for cats to study the behavior of free-roaming felines
The Nature Communication researchers believe data about cat roaming patterns and feces analysis will produce better information about the real impact of kitties on wildlife and the environment.
A student at NCSU placed GPS trackers in local cats and then downloaded information. Each cat's activities are posted on the Cat Tracker website and also on an international website that holds tracking information on thousands of animals of different species across the globe.
Cat tracker data with amazing results
Information already uploaded to the cat tracker site just amazes both the owners and the visitors. One researcher's cat, for example, stayed within a few blocks of home most of the time, until she suddenly got the urge to take a much longer trek to visit the family's previous home.
The researchers also placed a hidden camera in their cats, to see what actually they are doing. And so, they found that the cat went on quite a long hike to meet up with another cat for no reason- not for romance, not for a fight. The kitties stood around laid in the sunshine for a bit, and then traveled back home.
Future cat tracker project goals
The researchers from these amazing results are hoping to learn more about whether cats are drawn to one another for activities and friendship, or whether their outdoor meet-ups are coincidental.
Their future cat tracker project goals include;
> Exploring the reasons why cat roams
> How gender might play a role
> What prevents kitties from roaming
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