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Their small size, light bone structure, and thick fur decrease their terminal velocity. While falling, a cat spreads out its body to increase drag. [ 9 ] An average-sized cat with its limbs extended achieves a terminal velocity of about 60 mph (97 km/h), around half that of an average-sized man, who reaches a terminal velocity of about 120 mph ...
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.
[25] [26] It has been proposed that this might happen because cats reach terminal velocity after righting themselves at about five stories, and after this point they relax, leading to less severe injuries in cats who have fallen from six or more stories. [27]
In this Tabby Cat’s case, a life-saving tip arrived just in the nick of time. See how neighborhood children helped reunite a missing feline with his family in a video from September 23: View ...
Cats that spend time outdoors are at greater risk with exposure from dead animals, as well as wild birds or mice, which can also carry bird flu. Bailey and Coleman recommend trying to reduce their ...
The cats in this video were bonded at the shelter, and though they could not look more different, their new mom realized that she couldn’t bear to separate them.
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.
As the animal shelter staff shared at the beginning of the video, cats can live completely solitary lives--unlike dogs, who are pack animals--so all friendships are completely voluntary and preferred.