fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 days agoScientists Turned 300,000 Litter Box Visits into an AI-Powered Cat Health Monitor
A team of researchers at Nestle Purina PetCare decided to investigate litter boxes as records of behavior: the pre-squat scratch, the whirl, the precise geometry of the bury. The scientists built a painstaking dictionary of these gesturesa full ethogram, or catalog, of species-specific behaviorsand then identified the distinct moves in feline bathroom habits: grooming, digging, sniffing litter. We landed on 39 different behaviors that cats do in a litter box,
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