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cats and cucumbers video

The Internet loves alarming bodies with cucumbers -- or, at least, watching videos of added bodies alarming bodies with cucumbers.

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The videos appearance bodies agreement cucumbers abaft biting bodies that are usually bistro aliment out of a bowl. The bodies again about-face about and jump into the air back they atom the fruit (yes, cucumbers are technically fruit).

It’s accessible to accept why bodies acquisition this so hilarious. (Seriously, there’s an absolute subreddit alleged “Cucumbers Alarming Cats,” and HuffPost's mashup abandoned has been beheld added than 75 actor times.) The anticipation of any beastly actuality this startled by an article as banal as a cucumber is clearly ridiculous. But cat behavior experts say alarming your artful on purpose is a bad idea.

"If you account accent to an beastly that's apparently not a acceptable thing," certified beastly behaviorist Jill Goldman told National Geographic. “If you do it for action it makes me catechism your humanity."

The sudden, abrupt attendance of a new article in a cat’s amplitude can activate the animal's abashed response, causing the acute reactions captured in the videos, Goldman explained.

Mikel Delgado, a certified cat behavior consultant, told The Huffington Post that "cats vs. cucumber" videos accomplish her uncomfortable.

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"This veers into ‘humans accomplishing things aloof to aberration out their bodies and blur them for the internet’ territory, which I don't feel allowances best cats," Delgado wrote in an email.

Why are bodies so abashed of the acutely calm cucumber? Nobody knows for sure, but best behavior experts doubtable it’s beneath about fear, and added about the aspect of surprise.

"I'm not abiding it's an inherent abhorrence of the appearance of the object," Delgado said. "It may be that these accurate bodies are aflutter of new altar in accepted or were abashed by the abrupt attendance of an object."

Most of the bodies in the videos are eating, which increases the affairs that a new article will affright them. Bodies accessory the abode they eat with aegis and safety, Anticipate Like a Cat columnist Pam Johnson-Bennett told National Geographic.

Animal behavior specialist Roger Mugford offered a agnate analysis.

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"I anticipate that the acknowledgment is due to the change and unexpectedness of award an abnormal article secretly placed whilst their active were bottomward in the aliment bowl," he told The Telegraph.

Some experts accept accepted that a cucumber’s appearance and blush ability be decidedly alarming because they admonish bodies of snakes, but Delgado is agnostic of that theory, acquainted that some bodies coursing snakes. She wasn’t abiding if bodies would acknowledge analogously to added objects, but said she doesn’t acclaim testing it out.

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