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Cats love to sit in boxes so much, they ll even plop down in a square painted on the floor - and a new study finds they will even choose an optical illusion that looks like a square.
Animal behaviorists tested their love for boxes with a Kanizsa square, which tricks the eye into thinking there s a square using four Pac-Man-like wedges placed in each corner.
As it turns out, cats minds fill in the gaps just like humans, as the four-legged subjects sat in the illusionary squares as often as the real ones during experiments.
The felines sat with all limbs inside the optical illusions for three seconds, which may suggests it is the shape that makes them feel safe and not just the structure.