When tested, many animals will work for food when similar food is freely available, a phenomenon known as contrafreeloading. In a new study published in the journal Animal Cognition, a team of cat behaviorists tested for the first time whether domestic cats (Felis catus) living in homes would contrafreeload; the authors did not find strong evidence for contrafreeloading; instead, cats preferred to eat the food that was freely available with no required...
