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The falling cat problem has elicited interest from scientists including George Gabriel Stokes, James Clerk Maxwell, and Étienne-Jules Marey.In a letter to his wife, Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell wrote, "There is a tradition in Trinity that when I was here I discovered a method of throwing a cat so as not to light on its feet, and that I used to throw cats out of windows.
The cat righting reflex is a cat's innate ability to orient itself as it falls in order to land on its feet. The righting reflex begins to appear at 3–4 weeks of age, and is perfected at 6–9 weeks. [ 1 ]
If a cat falls off something, they will pretend like it didn’t happen. If they go to pounce and miss, they’ll act like they meant to do it. Which is not to say that cats can’t look ridiculous.
A 1987 study speculated that this is done after falling five stories to ensure the cat reaches a terminal velocity by thereafter relaxing and spreading their bodies to increase drag. [ 4 ] [ 10 ] In 2021, a Chicago cat jumped from the fifth floor of a burning building, bounced after landing on a grass lawn feet-first and survived with no injuries.
The Animal Project NYC is being challenged with a near-impossible task this week, attempting to find homes for more than a dozen cats by Thursday, Jan. 23. A Bronx woman had been hoarding the cats ...
Gizmo isn't the first cat to survive a big fall. Back in May, a cat in an unidentified location fell three stories after losing its grip on the side of a building. It sprung back up, and ran off.
The brain of the domesticated cat is about five centimetres (2.0 in) long and weighs 25–30 g (0.88–1.06 oz). [1] [2] If a typical cat is taken to be 60 cm (24 in) long with a weight of 3.3 kg (7.3 lb), then the brain would be at 0.91% [3] of its total body mass, compared to 2.33% [3] of total body mass in the average human.
Los Angeles is home to a whopping 1 million to 3 million feral and stray cats, so it is no surprise that the California city has a cat program to tackle the issue. Passed in 2020, the Citywide Cat ...