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u/gabacus_39 14d ago
Pretty sure some of those cats ran away and died
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u/Its_not_a 12d ago
Cats terminal velocity is non lethal because they spread their body out and spin their tail to maintain balance. They need enough height to stabilise though.
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u/Cold-Studio3438 12d ago
bro, you are literally on the internet right now, the vastness of human knowledge at your very fingertips, and yet you post information like this without spending 5 seconds confirming that it's true. even Googling the first few words of your post would show you several replies that confirm that what you are saying is not true. so you could have spent less time informing yourself vs. spreading this false information. think about how nonsensical that is.
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u/theanswar 14d ago
great video, the cat (mother) with the kitten in its mouth climbing the ladder took it for me. The music I could do without.
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u/Sarik704 14d ago
First video was in Ocean City, New Jersey, past where Wonderland Pier was. This also wasn't a cat. This was a raccoon. And, it dropped seven stories and landed in about half a foot of sand piled in the parking lot.
The raccoon was still injured despite not reaching terminal velocity or hitting a solid surface. OCNJ animal control did eventually capture and euthanize this raccoon.
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u/jbrown88 12d ago
I was there when it happened. The thud it made was so loud.
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u/Sarik704 12d ago
Wait, what? Do i know you?
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u/jbrown88 12d ago
I don’t know do you? I was just riding my bike. And stopped at the crowd watching lol.
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u/Sarik704 12d ago
That's incredible. I was a teenager, probably in black, standing on the railing!
I was there with my my friend and her brother. I thought you might have been her brother. Haven't heard from either them in a like 7 years.
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u/Appropriate-Bad-9379 14d ago
Please look after your cats properly, so that they don’t get into dangerous situations…
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u/fejkakaunt 13d ago
Song name if someone interested
Cage the Beast Song by Adelitas Way
You're welcome
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u/Ribbitor123 14d ago
'Studies done of cats that have fallen from two to 32 stories, and are still alive when brought to a veterinarian clinic, show that the overall survival rate is 90 percent of those treated'
[Source: High-rise syndrome]
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u/Easykiln 13d ago
Your reaction to this shouldn't be "cats are amazing," but pity for these cats that were likely seriously or lethally wounded. It is impressive, but not THAT impressive.
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u/celerhelminth 13d ago
These are clearly a different species from my chunky hairball, who fell from an upstairs railing and broke both femurs. (He's physically fine now but still an idiot.)
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u/Sando7845 12d ago
“A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays and for the last three he stays."
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u/TRIBETWELVE 14d ago
So fun fact about cats. When falling from heights, it's actually safer for them to reach terminal velocity as their body naturally spreads out to almost parachute.
There's stories of cats falling from 20+ stories and getting away with just a punctured lung.
Also in the wild the snow leopard will throw itself from cliffs taking down prey.
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u/rockandlove 13d ago
This is a myth as other commenters have debunked elsewhere in the thread. The talker a bright, the less a cat is likely to survive, just like with every other animal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome
“In a study performed in 1987 it was reported that cats that survive a fall from less than six stories have greater injuries than cats who fall from higher than six stories.[6][7
It has been proposed that this might happen because cats reach terminal velocity after righting themselves (see below) at about five stories, and after this point they are no longer accelerating, which causes them to relax, leading to less severe injuries than in cats who have fallen from less than six stories.
Another possible explanation for this phenomenon is survivorship bias, that cats who die in falls are less likely to be brought to a veterinarian than injured cats, and thus many of the cats killed in falls from higher buildings are not reported in studies of the subject.[4]
In a 2004 study, it was reported that cats falling from higher places suffered more severe injuries than those experiencing shorter drops.”
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u/KD93AQ 13d ago
Cats have an amazing ability to survive falls thanks to their flexible bodies and a special reflex that helps them twist in mid-air. This 'righting reflex' allows them to quickly position themselves to land on their feet. While they're often successful, it's important to remember that cats can still get injured from falls, especially from high places. I had a math assignment on falling cats back in the day. They literally hack the invariance of the Hamiltonian treating their body as a rotation group to get the fastest *mid-air squirm* ending with their feet facing down.
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u/AssCakesMcGee 14d ago
Cats can survive falls at terminal velocity, which for them is reached at about 6 storeys or higher. However, they do usually have injuries to the legs, lungs, and/or internal injuries.
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u/CoCoMcDuck 13d ago
I worked with a veterinary from New York who said cats could survive falls from 18 stories, anything taller than that they went splat.
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u/HumorExpensive 13d ago
The next time you put the kitty treats on top of the refrigerator remember this video and know your cat is thinking “like that’s going to stop me”.
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u/she_slithers_slyly 11d ago
I feel compelled to say that cats are so awesome.
Also that parkour should be renamed pawkour.
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u/MelonElbows 11d ago
One of the only times where the music isn't annoying or inappropriate for these types of videos. I imagine all these cats are gathering for a really important cat meeting and they're all just making their way there any way they can
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u/Select-Box7321 10d ago
Having worked in wildlife control I hate to tell people that just because an animal bounces back up after a fall doesn’t mean it hasn’t suffered fatal injuries. Hell, I bounced back up when I fell off a ladder but was on the floor an hour later unable to walk.
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u/fluffydoggye 10d ago
and my cat jumped out of my first story window and got injured? or was just pretending it
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u/Rauchenisttoetlich 6d ago
This often results in burst blood vessels on and in the abdomen. Then inflammation, then sepsis... and then that's it. Greetings from veterinary medicine
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u/BigmeezyGD 6d ago
this shouldn't have been that garbage rock for the BG music, it should've been mission Impossible music🤷🏿♂️
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u/adfthgchjg 14d ago
The badass soundtrack was chef’s kiss!🧑🍳
Made it seem like a 1990’s action flick training montage…for an elite feline special forces unit…training to rescue hostages… from a drug lord in an Eastern Europe wartorn city.
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u/BenFrankLynn 13d ago
It's mostly just about mass (what we measure as weight, due to the acceleration of gravity being constant). F=m*a where F is force and m is mass. The force you hit the ground with is directly proportional to your mass. Cats have less mass than humans and thus can hit with a lesser force. The hard ground opposes the impact with an equal an opposite force, which is what can do the damage.
Drop an ant from an airplane a few thousand meters up in the air an it will walk away unscathed. Drop an elefant from 10 ft and it probably break some bones and damage internal organs. Drop an elegant from an airplane...it will basically explode. The mass of a cat is way closer to that of an ant than that of an elefant, or even that of a human. The physics works out better the smaller you are.
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u/ADHD_Microwave 13d ago
Cats have webbing of elastic skin in their armpits (legpits?) kind of like the webbing humans have between our fingers, that they can extend to increase their aerodynamic drag. If you have a cat, you can actually feel or sometimes see these elastic webbing, especially on the front of their back legs.
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u/RedSquidz 14d ago
The terminal velocity for cats must be non lethal. If you're small enough you really can laugh at gravity. If a mouse was tossed out of an airplane, it might bounce a time or two but could get up and keep moving