Animal behavior experts explained to Metro readers why cats are afraid of cucumbers. Amateur videos of purrs who are nervous at the sight of harmless green fruits have literally flooded the World Wide Web in recent years and tempt curious citizens who love to seek answers to “useless” questions.
According to Kon Slobodchikov, a zoopsychologist and author of popular science books, long-bodied fruits resemble snakes to cats and cats and cause instinctive fear in them.
A colleague of Slobodchikov’s, Jill Goldman, shares a similar opinion, believing that cucumbers cause a difficult-to-explain reflexive fear in cats. Acting “automatically”, murkas and leopards first try to be at the maximum distance from an incomprehensible object, and only then “evaluate” their actions.
Experts advise against prank fans to repeat the cucumber experiment with their cat, recalling that a frightened animal is prone to unpredictable and dangerous actions, including jumping out of a window or balcony, and can also plunge into prolonged stress.
Source: Rosbalt
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