00:00Cats always land on their feet. It's a very cute kind of aptitude that they have, but it's taken
00:04us quite some time to actually figure out how they do it. Recently, a group of scientists decided to
00:12put the question to rest once and for all, and figure it out through a combination of
00:20dissecting cat cadavers and dropping living cats from like a foot off the ground,
00:26that the key is in the flexibility of their spines. Their upper or thoracic spine is significantly
00:33more flexible than their lower or lumbar spine, meaning that one half of their body is able to
00:38twist a lot faster than the other, which can kind of line them up and get them settled and ready
00:43to
00:43land on the ground. The other half of it is that the more flexible part of their spine is in
00:50the
00:50part of their body that's lighter, which allows it to turn even faster. So they got more of their
00:55weight towards their butt. That kind of holds in place with the less flexible lumbar spine,
01:00and then the upper spine twists everybody around and has them landing comfortably on four paws.
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