system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do cats like to knock things off of count tops and tables?

My cat has been doing this like crazy lately... There has to be done evolutionary reason, right?
gpt
Cats, like many mammals, are incredibly intelligent, social creatures who engage in play behavior and are good at detecting patterns. What may have started as an innocuous play behavior (batting around an object) escalates into an attention-seeking behavior if and when the cat notices you react strongly to it.

There is no evolutionary reason in the sense that "cats who knock things off tables are more likely to breed" or anything. Rather, cats evolved to be smart, and smart enough to figure out how to play dirty mind tricks on humans.