Ever wonder where your kitty live at dark ? According to one team of Australian citizen scientists , the answer is “ far , far aside . ” To educate people on their pet ’ wandering wont , member of agrarian support groupCentral Tablelands Local Land Servicesstrapped GPS tracker onto more than a dozen cats and observed their move around routes . They wound up with a series of captivating maps , whichMashable Australia recently published .
The primary takeout ? Fluffy might be a lazy house cat by day , but come eventide he ’s a ungratified bird of passage . During the experimentation , cats tramp such recollective distances that the researcher thought there might be problem with the GPS data . Some venture into the more wild bushland arena , while others scoped out neighboring houses or hung around places like local schools ( salvage in the dumpster , perhaps ? ) . One cat even traveled about two miles forth from home , ABC Australia reports .
The project started in March , and originally involved around 25 cats . By May , only around 14 felines were still stand up , mostly because GPS trackers would fall off , or cats refused to wear them . The kitties were traverse from one to 10 24-hour interval , look on their owners ’ wishing .
Thanks to the experiment , some surprised favorite owners have started throttle how often their kat go out , report ABC Australia . They ’re worried about their pet catching disease , getting into fights with other cat , or getting hurt in traffic . Another business is that their rambling cats might harm the environment , aged land officer Peter Evans told Mashable .
" Cats are given a middling speculative whack . In terms of the damage they do to biodiversity , to native fauna and flora , " Evans said . “You always get the gossip from owner that their cat does n’t swan … but we thought it was a great visual to show owners where CAT go when they do n’t jazz where they are , because broadly a hatful of cats are unrestrained . "
The Central Tablelands LLS hop to extend its cat trailing project to other local governments , and also plan to collaborate with the University of Australia , which fill out its ownfeline mapping experimentation . train out some of their most late cat map below , orvisit Mashableto see more photos .
