Cats are very sleepy animals. Except when they are young kittens and spend more time active thanks to play, the truth is that adult cats spend a good part of the 24 hours of the day sleeping.
Yuri Nakahashi, a doctoral student at Hosei University, decided to find out. Spoon & Tamago reports his work. She has five cats and speculated that they chose sleeping spots for ideal conditions of mood, light, warmth and coziness. For 24 nights, she mimicked her sleep locations and measured her sleep with a FitBit.
Quantitatively, there was no significant difference in sleep acquired. But more personally, Nakahashi reported feeling excited not knowing where she would be sleeping on any given night. She also received greater affection from her cats, than apparently Nakahashi's desire to be more cat-like.
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https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/03/09/cat-sleep-study/
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2203/08/news060.html
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