It is science, folks. Thanks to BBC Earth, here we ask for a minute and a half of your time in the interest of understanding exactly how cats do what they do. As we see it, this may translate into your future action in the interest of conservation of their natural habitat (the wild cats, of course, not the backyard bird-eating domestic variety):
How do cats always land on their feet?
This cat not only defies gravity but lands again safely and it all happens in less than a second
Caracals are expert bird hunters, capable of catching them in mid-flight with incredible leaps.
They are built for a vertical launch. But what goes up must come down – and come down in the right way.
The exact mechanism by which cats always land on their feet kept scientists arguing for over a century. A cat needs to turn around, but to do that it has to push against something else – but there’s nothing there.
Super slow motion video, however, reveals exactly how these flexible cats are able to twist their spine in opposite directions. By spinning in two different directions at the same time, the caracal is effectively pushing against itself…
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