Fluffy may nip at you during playtime but, drop dead and she’s likely to take a bite out of your corpse. They’ll start with the arm tissue, according to a recent paper by researchers from Colorado Mesa University’s Forensic Investigation Research Station. Remote cameras caught two cats returning to their preferred corpses (which were there for research) routinely for 35 nights straight.
Source: SFGATE, January 15, 2020. Link. The main theory is that cats are, like, picky eaters. Once they find a food that they like, they’ll stick with it,” said Garcia, the lead author on the paper which was published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
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