Cats vs. Gravity | Science of Stupid

the Internet is packed full of clips of
people’s cats doing hilarious things so
we thought we put these wonders of the
web to work and find out if cats are as
clever as their smug little faces
suggest or other as daft as the rest of
us let’s jump straight in by examining
cats amazing leaping skills blessed with
incredibly powerful back legs and a low
body weight they’re capable of jumping
up to six times their own height with
Grace and pinpoint accuracy when it
comes to our leaping prowess pound per
pound we lack a cat strength their grace
go and their accuracy now I’m sure
you’ll smash it next time ah
no now so what is it about a kitties
leap that leaves us humans for dust well
it’s all down to evolution and
increasing kinetic energy for the jump
when preparing to jump missy adopts a
crouched position like a coiled spring
this allows her to exploit the full
strength of her powerful rear legs as
she leaps upwards on landing she pulls
herself up with her back legs gripping
with her claws bringing her to a
graceful hot in the wild cats use their
leaping skills as an essential part of
hunting and mogees domesticus still
likes to keep his iron Dave he spotted
his prey he waited he pounced Dave he
forgot about the window a numb bum is no
fun it’s time mr. waffles found
somewhere warmer to sit mr. waffles
didn’t figure on the importance of
friction when attempting to lift off
although he was hoping to jump up by
pushing down and backwards on the car
roof his slip then the energy was wasted
but a pause