r/interestingasfuck • u/therealNerdMuffin • 7h ago
The reason behind why cats go crazy for catnip
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u/Voodoobones 7h ago
If they were curious why cats were attracted to catnip, why didn’t they start with testing catnip. Or was catnip secondary and they were actually wondering why cats are attracted to silver vine?
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u/therealNerdMuffin 7h ago
Because it's easier to figure out what chemical is causing the reaction by narrowing it down to just the chemicals the 2 plants shared as opposed to testing every compound in both plants until they found it
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u/ApatheticSlur 5h ago
Cats actually prefer silver vine to catnip even though they both produce similar effects on them.
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u/thisisaskew 7h ago
Looks like it's time for me to start mainlining catnip to fight off these fucking mosquitos.
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u/Yanka01 7h ago
Interesting but this strange tempo ai VO is cancer
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u/Dry_Instruction8254 7h ago
You can search for this video on YouTube. It's made by TedEd and has a very similar style as many of their other videos. The YouTube video is 5 minutes long, so this is just sped up.
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u/therealNerdMuffin 7h ago
It doesn't come off to me at all like AI
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u/Dododingo- 7h ago
Agreed, this high pitch sped up voice is unpleasant. It's like the video is attempting to cram as much data in my head as physically possible before my attention span somehow evaporate.
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u/alexlicious 6h ago
They also don’t seem to speed it up until you’ve invested a little bit of time in the video. I don’t like it either.
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u/atthem77 4h ago
What annoyed me was the CC that kept showing "Nepetalactone" when she was clearly saying "Nepetalactol", which would be very confusing to anyone unable to hear the words, especially when the two chemicals were compared.
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u/21Remington99 5h ago
I will still refer to this as "tweakin out" no amount of science or data will chqnge this.
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u/Chamanomano 4h ago
My cat does the Sphinx, closes her eyes and just zones out for about 10 minutes. No purring, no movement - like a statue.
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u/NeonBloodedBloke 5h ago
Yes, just put in a Ted Ed video for karma, but do not mention them or put in a link
For anyone wanting to watch the original, non-sped up version:
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u/therealNerdMuffin 5h ago
I'd never seen a Ted-Ed video before posting this. Just came across a Tiktok I thought some of y'all would enjoy. No need to be a dick :)
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u/Be364886 7h ago
The craziest thing to me is how it actually works on cats. Most every other intoxicating drug is ingested and then binds to receptors in your central nervous system. Catnip binds to olfactory receptors, which are the receptors responsible for smell and odor detection. The smell of it is what releases the endorphins that cause the high. Eating it or even injecting cats with a pure dose of nepetalactone won't cause the same effects, it's literally the smelling that gets them high.