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What does "to mask her owner’s scent" mean? Mask as a verb is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as "to prevent something from being seen or noticed" and I can't see the purpose of the cat preventing her owner's scent being sensed (by other animals). Do you?
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Kitty see, kitty do: cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior
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Tennie also notes that both imitations—touching a box with a paw and rubbing a face against a box—are actions a cat might do anyway. And Ebisu may have simply rubbed her face against the box to mask her owner’s scent, he says. “I’m not convinced we’re seeing true imitation.”
Source: Science Sep. 25, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...human-first-scientific-demonstration-behavior
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Kitty see, kitty do: cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior
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Tennie also notes that both imitations—touching a box with a paw and rubbing a face against a box—are actions a cat might do anyway. And Ebisu may have simply rubbed her face against the box to mask her owner’s scent, he says. “I’m not convinced we’re seeing true imitation.”
Source: Science Sep. 25, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...human-first-scientific-demonstration-behavior