Cats can not land on their feet in weightlessness, because they do not understand where the bottom Bashny.Net

US Air Force conducted a series of experiments to find out how the animals behave in a nevesomosti



It is well known that cats can land on their feet, even if the fall from the height of the blindfold, but documentary footage prove that cats can do it only when they realize where the bottom. Cats, like humans, weightlessness or hovering or moving in a straight line until they bump into something. Birds also lose coordination in weightlessness.



These early experiments were the basis of tests on other animals - mice, fish and proteins. Laura Lewis (Laura Lewis), a member of NASA, says that animals are adapting to weightlessness surprisingly quickly: in five minutes the mouse float freely inside their cells and behave the same as in normal gravity conditions.



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