Cat caught After the back of the neck will not move, however, is not all cats like this? Let's take a look at the fold cat first.

The owner of the fold-ear cat is Mr. Yin. This fold-ear cat has been raised at home for a year and a half. Although he is relatively well-behaved on weekdays, he still accidentally scratches his master. Mr. Yin said that as long as the cat avoids the vigilant parts of the cat, it will not hurt people, but it can't stop it from moving! So does scratching the back of the neck make it motionless like in the video?  

In the end, after Mr. Yin caught the kitten, the folded-eared cat really seemed to be acupointed, with its limbs open and motionless. . Could it be that the kitten recognizes its owner? Then the reporter tested it for himself. When the reporter experienced this time, he found that the kitten who was picked up by the flesh on the back of the neck was also stunned for three or four seconds. But it will be active again soon. Mr. Yin told the reporter that it may be that the reporter's grasping method was a bit heavy, and the kitten was unwilling.  

Through the first kitten's personal experience, we found that the method of grasping the skin on the back of the kitten's neck is really useful, but it is maintained. Time is a bit short.

Let's look at another Norwegian forest cat. It's a lot bigger than the folded ear.  

As a result, the 12-year-old cat had the same situation. After being picked up by the flesh on the back of the neck, it also stretched its limbs and did not move. .

Next is the third experimental kitten. This is an adult Siamese cat, how should this Siamese cat move and how to move when it is also grabbed by the flesh at the back of the neck. So why the same method, some kittens really don't move, and some kittens have no effect at all?

In fact, different cats have individual differences. Generally speaking, most cats do appear quieter when they are caught by the flesh on the back of their necks. Even completely immobile.  

Because when big cats are raising kittens, they are directly holding their necks, they think it is their mother holding them, and they will fall and fall if they are disturbed. , so it won't move. But after a long time it does not want to. Because the cat is only uncomfortable in one position.  

That is to say, it is a genetic reaction that the cat becomes quiet after being grabbed by the flesh on the back of the neck, but because the feeling of the human hand is different from that of the cat The mother picks up the feeling of the baby, so the cat will recover in a certain period of time. As for the kitten that moved around from the very beginning, like the third experimental cat, it is likely to be related to its individual previous experience.

A group of Japanese neurobiologists studied a series of physiological responses when animals were picked up by their mothers and found that similar sedative effects were not only found in mice. exist in human infants as well. The three physiological responses that are most typical of sedative effects and are similar between humans and mice are: cessation of crying, compliance, and slowing of the heart rate.  

This research is significant because the consistency of physiological responses across species allows scientists to study phenomena in mice rather than human babies The reasoning behind, and the findings explain not only the one clip freezes a cat question that this article is trying to answer, but also another question that is more relevant to us humans: Why is it okay to pick up and shake when a baby is crying? Calm the baby down.  

In the experiment, they anesthetized the nerves in the neck of the young rats to feel the movement, and then the sedative effect produced by being picked up was weakened. At the same time, surgically removing part of the brain to interfere with incoming signals to the cerebellar cortex also prolonged the time it took for the mother to calm the pups. The pups won't curl up if they can't sense a grip on the back of their neck; they won't be submissive if the cerebellum can't pick up the signal. The weakening of the heartbeat and changes in body posture are directly achieved by the parasympathetic and efferent nerves of the cerebellum. This series of physiological responses makes the pups quiet, submissive, and curled up, allowing the mother to take them to a safe place.

So, it's not that the back of the cat's neck is dead, on the contrary, it is the sensory nerves at the back of the neck that make the cat get the I'm being picked up signal And the subsequent physiological response similar to being acupuncture is not because the nerve channel is blocked, but because the signal from the brain guides them to appear to facilitate the transfer of their own physiological phenomenon.