Does a cat always land on its feet? That’s the title of a concocted article published some years ago in the Annals of Improbable Research. The article was part of last week’s discussion on the Science Friday radio program. A new BBC program called Life In The Air features this video of a cat righting itself […]
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It’s a land fish, they say
The self-proclaimed first highlight of a new study is this: The Pacific leaping blenny, Alticus arnoldorum, is a land fish. The study is: “Natural selection in novel environments: predation selects for background matching in the body colour of a land fish,” Courtney L. Morgans and Terry J. Ord, Animal Behaviour, epub October 23, 2013. Here, in chart […]
Much ado about falling cats
The folks at Smarter Every Day produced this video about falling cats—and how those cats manage to land on their feet: (Thanks to investigator Arne Tomlinson for bringing this to our attention) BONUS: The apocryphal, published study “Does a Cat Always Land on Its Feet?” from the special Animal Behavior issue (vol. 4, no. 4, […]