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These memes are for those times where you try to turn on your brain and it refuses to work - perhaps because you're a student who just pulled an all-nighter to study for an exam, or because you worked overtime. Either way, literally anyone can relate to them, because we can't all be geniuses all the time.

Oh, be still our hearts, if this is the most endearing new study reveal we've ever heard! 

Canine Cottage conducted a study in which they had four different pups fitting with a special heart rate tracking collars. These collars indicate what gets the pups excited when interacting with their owners. Over the course of seven days, the average heart rate for the four dogs was 67 beats per minute. 

When the dogs heard their owners tell them. "I love you," their average heart rate skyrocketed to 98 beats per minute! 

A new study from animal nutrition specialists at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, have discovered something quite interesting. Turns out, giving your cat one big meal is more satisfying to them than providing them with a few small meals throughout the day. 

Weird, right? That's exactly the opposite of what's been told to us. Yet, out of eight indoor cats, who over the course of 21 days were fed once daily and then fed four times daily, the cats who ate just the one, big meal a day had a higher level of three appetites-regulating hormones. The researchers claim they were more satisfied and not only more full but also burning their fat stores and even had more protein to help build some muscle. 

Story via Daily Mail

Congratulations! If you're an avid user of our website, you haven't only been procrastinating by watching cute animal pictures and reading heartwarming stories, you've also apparently been working on improving your health. A new study by the University of Leeds and Tourism Western Australia shows that looking at cute animals has real health benefits, including lowered stress levels and blood pressure.

Sharks who form long-lasting friendships with one another? That's actually really cute.

According to a team of scientists, in Florida, they have recently discovered that grey reef sharks form long-lasting relationships with one another. Yannis Papastamatiou, a member of the team studying this phenomenon, said "We don't think of sharks as social animals, but they do have social groups."

The grey reef sharks are large-eyed sharks who roam the Pacific and Indian ocean. They are known to be aggressive nocturnal predators but it turns out they have a soft side when it comes to other grey reef sharks. 

Story via The Independent

According to Royal Canin's new survey, cats are being defined as "Quarantine Heroes" during these uncertain times.  

Royal Canin, a global cat food company, asked 2,000 American cat owners, in a recent survey, about the relationships with their cats during these difficult past few months (quarantine and other subjects). 

The survey shows that more than half (57%) of cat owners felt less alone during quarantine and 49% of cat owners stated their cats helped reduce their anxiety. 

That's not all, the study revealed! 64% of cat owners shared that they got closer to their beloved feline during that time and discovered new places their cats like to explore/hang out. And within that same group, 54% found their cat's a new favorite food, and 34% came up with new games! 

When spending so much time at home, a total of 76% of cat owners claimed to feel much closer to their pets now. And beautifully, 61% of the conducted survey actually went out to adopt or foster a pet during the quarantine. How wonderful is that? Remember, if you're thinking of getting a pet, please consider adopting and not shopping. 

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Chances are, if you're reading this then you should be studying instead of looking at memes. But let's be real, you're tired and bored and you need a break. Sometimes taking a break can give you a new rush of inspiration after all, so browse through these memes and then get back to work, dammit!

EBaum's World's got even more school-related memes for the stressed out students!

Sometimes you really come up with an amazing study idea, with a potential success rate of about 0%  to succeed. You're colleagues may think you're crazy, might even laugh at you, but you keep pushing it. And if you get to that point, you'd be where these scientists from a international team at the University of Minnesota, who decided to examine the cuttlefish and its field of vision while hunting, using 3D glasses. 

We're not talking about the latest tech that resemble regular glasses. No, the red and blue glasses of yore that used to come with the first "3D" movies. With any number of methods to measure these reactions to prey and stimuli, that the scientists opted for the retro method, especially with its challenges, is surprising. But it just makes for some of the best visuals possible so here is what happens when you put 3D glasses on cuttlefish and feed them lots of shrimp to do it. The results were even more surprising.

Welcome to hell! Here it is people, FINALS WEEK, your head is on the chopping block and the executioner is sharpening his axe.

Or, OR... you're the 1%, you're fine. You are filled with nothing but knowledge and swagger as you walk to each class.

But lets face it. If you're reading this, that's probably not you. You're sweating, filled with panic and coffee, and spouting more swears than a sailor on your way to class.

So, lets take a look at how it will all go down.

We're going to live forever.

OK, maybe not forever, but a good long life -- filled with love and furbabies. 

A cheers to our pets. Not only do new studies suggest they've been linked to providing us with a longer, healthier life... they also bring so much love and happiness to our lives as well. 

Story via Modern Healthcare

Cats may sometimes seem aloof, contrary and utterly nonplussed by humans, but it turns out that might not be the full story. A new study says they bond with humans much as dogs do. 

Cats may sometimes seem aloof, contrary and utterly nonplussed by humans, but it turns out that might not be the full story. A new study says they bond with humans much as dogs do. 

According to a recent study out of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, cats are steadily gaining weight well into adulthood as a whole. As a result, your neutered, domesticated cats' weight has increased over the past 20 years. Hopefully, these disturbing findings will open the eyes of cat owners across the globe, so that feline obesity is no longer an epidemic. Via: Cole and Marmalade

There is now an official (and scientific!) reason why cats love boxes. Why cats and boxes are such a good mix has long been a mystery. Researchers from the University of Utrecht have discovered just why, publishing the results of their findings in the Journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

This is reason enough to post observations (collected by top scientists) of this cute cat phenomenon. Not that we needed a reason, but you know.

University of Utrecht researchers C. M. Vinke, L.M. Godijn and W. J. R. van der Leij each contributed to the study.

Rover.com conducted a survey via PollFish in March 2019 to take a deeper look in the phenomenon of a pet's influence in the household. They polled 1,261 adult dog and cat owners in the United States. The study is known as "The Secret Lives of Cat People and Dog People" and the report investigates "how having a cat, a dog or both affects humans and the relationships we cultivate with our pets." The data revealed that cat people and dog people are more alike than different. So can we all live in peace now? Check out the results below. 

However this report has not answered one of the most crucial disputes on the subject in recent, and historical memory: Who's better: cats or dogs? Or neither? I'm still torn on the subject, but let us know in the comments, maybe some compromise can be found (dogs win). Regardless of the results, we can all agree that these fantastic felines make up some pretty hilarious cat memes, so continue your marathon of memes with some of the best cats around.