Animals that fall upside down typically engage in an aerial righting response so as to reorient dorsoventrally. This behavior can be preparatory to gliding or other controlled aerial behaviors and is ...

Cats are renowned for always landing on their feet. While that’s not entirely true, “cat physics” sounds like an oxymoron. Scientific laws don’t appear to apply to animals that can squeeze into ...

The other night, I watched a YouTube video featuring a woman standing on her bed, holding a cat upside down by its feet, then repeatedly dropping the cat onto the mattress. Amazingly, every time the ...

A new study of the impact on marine life of seismic air guns, used in geological surveys of the seafloor, has found that the sensory organs and righting reflexes of rock lobster can be damaged by ...

With rumours about nine lives and the ability to always land on their feet, cats have gained an air of legend surrounding their physical capabilities. But in some cases, the folklore isn’t far from ...

LONDON. Royal Society, June 11.—R. Magnus: Animal posture (Croonian Lecture). Postural centres in brain-stem compound the body musculature to com bined action. Postural stimuli arise from many ...

CAT RIGHTING REFLEX: The word on the RIGHT of each theme answer can be paired with the word CAT to form a new phrase: LAP CAT, ALLEY CAT, and HOUSE CAT. Well, you know I'm going to be a fan of any ...