How Can a Cat Survive a High-Rise Fall? Physics!
Sometimes a cat will fall out of a window or balcony—a byproduct, no doubt, of a cat doing cat things. If you have a house cat, your feline's propensity for aerial shenanigans probably doesn't worry you that much: Cats falling from low windows can use their righting reflex to land on their feet like nothing even happened. Fall from a higher story, though—in what researchers call high-rise syndrome—and they may not be as lucky.
