• Question: Why do cats always land on their feet?

    Asked by scientistswagsquad to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      This is known as the ‘Cat righting reflex’ and can occur because the cat has a unusually flexible backbone and no functional collarbone and can therefore turn itself as falling

      However, it does need to fall from high enough to be able to manage this in time. So they don’t ALWAYS land on their feet 🙂

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