When Cats Look at Pictures of Other Cats, What Do They See?
Answers to your questions about the news. June 27 2012 5:33 PM
Here’s Looking at You, Kitty  When cats gaze at pictures of
other cats, do they know what they’re seeing?  Cat watching
television. Can cats recognize pictures of other cats?
Photograph by iStockphoto.  A network of 1,000 Google computers
has achieved a computing milestone: The massive electronic brain
taught itself to recognize pictures of cats. Computers remain
far behind humans in their ability to identify images, but where
do they stand relative to other animals? Can cats recognize
pictures of cats?  Probably. Several animals seem drawn to
pictures of members of their own species. For example, if you
let a Japanese macaque control how long an image remains on a
computer screen, it will spend more time gazing at other
Japanese macaques as compared to rhesus or bonnet macaques. When
placed in a maze, untrained sheep follow paths labeled with
pictures of other sheep more often than pa