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And now, a cat sitting like a human. Y’know. Just thinkin’ about stuff.

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Why? Because anthropomorphizing non-human animals is fun and useful. Yes, useful.

There’s a reason humans love videos like this; after all, our tendency to project human qualities on animals stretches back well beyond the world’s first ridiculous cat photos. Some researchers even think that, without anthropomorphism, neither pet-keeping nor animal domestication would ever have been possible. In other words: your tendency to d’aaaaw at this video may actually have pretty significant survival value.

https://gizmodo.com/even-in-the-1870s-humans-were-obsessed-with-ridiculous-5900334

It’s also pretty adorable.

[lookcyber007 via @BecCrew via @sluttyfringe]

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