Rotate your owl, with or without music: [HT investigator Mary Ellen Kovich] BONUS: For background, see the study: “THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM OF THE OWL,” K.E. Money and M.J. Correia, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 June 1972, Pages 353–354, IN3–IN5, 355–358. Abstract: Owls have a curious variability in the postrotatory head nystagmus […]
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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, […]