BBC Horizon’s Secret life of the cat – meet the Shamley Green cats
A team from BBC Breakfast were in Shamley Green this morning, broadcasting live outside the Arbuthnot Hall, promoting Horizon’s The secret life of cats documentary which is to be broadcast on BBC2 and BBC2HD Thursday 13th June at 9pm.
Horizon and a team from the Royal Veterinary College descended on Shamley Green in April to conduct one of the largest ever research projects into the behaviour of the domestic cat. They used GPS trackers on the collars of around 40 cats in Shamley Green with interesting results. Tonight’s programme will reveal how the cats visit each others homes, timeshare territory to avoid confrontation and it even shows one cat in a confrontation with a fox.
GPS collars were fitted to the cats, together with mini cameras so that the team could track the cats and film their behaviour – all from their HQ in the Arbuthnot Hall.

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