Escape Artist thread

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>>2324825
Interesting thread idea. Bumping.

>>2326431
Did he live?

>>2328310
Yeah, cats can survive falls from pretty high up

>>2328310
>>2328325
Typically cats can control their terminal velocity (max falling speed) so that they don't get seriously injured from long falls.

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I should have webms somewhere, but I don't remember where I saved them, so I'm posting youtube links instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ13Wcx4wjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6GMhwyKlhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTlkwUBwIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PaGvAhV9I

>>2328580
Except the fat ones

>>2328310
you can see the cat running away on the last picture, so probably it wasn't hurt at all. this particular height we see here is not really dangerous for a fit adult cat, it could have jumped any time. it's just that as the height goes up, cats start being afraid of jumping way before the height becomes actually dangerous to them. it's something they can't really test their limits on, can't tune their behavior through playing, so they make a conservative error.

>>2330782
But he sticks his legs straight out right before impact. You'd think they'd snap in two. I would think he'd want to tuck them close to his body at landing so more of his mass and fat can absorb the shock instead of the leg bones directly.

>>2331281
looks like standard catness to me. after rotating into the correct position it absorbs the initial shock with its front legs: extends them and pushes hard against the ground, then takes the rest if the shock with the hind legs. if that's not enough, it smashes its body flat into the ground to spread out the shock as much as possible while keeping its head at a constant height. when that does not work either, it's jaw-and-teeth-breaking time, but this is rare; sometimes cats get away from falls from the tenth floor or higher without breaking their jaws or any other bone. essentially a fall from almost any height seems survivable for a cat assuming it lands on soft ground like lawn, sand etc. because their terminal velocity is rather low and they are actively reducing it further by spreading out flying squirrel-like during long falls.

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>>2328591
>that guy wearing red to a rodeo

It's like fucking looney tunes