Preface

Cats are intelligent animals with extremely strong self-protection abilities. In daily life, cats often do dangerous things or encounter attacks from animals. When danger comes, they will immediately fly over the eaves and walls, climb trees, and avoid danger. How did they utilize this skill?

1、 Climb to a high place

For cats, having a high advantage means that they can use their front paws to catch any enemy trying to grab them from below and cause them serious injuries. Climbing to high places is often one of the preferred strategies for cats in distress. They will stay up until it's safe before coming down. Cats can jump from a stationary state to heights many times their height, and they can easily jump away from other animals and humans, which other animals and humans cannot do.

2、 Up the tree

In daily life, when attacked by wild dogs or other beasts, trees provide cats with an ideal escape route. Cats have sharp hooked claws that help them climb textured vertical planes, and most experienced cats find climbing trees easy. Inexperienced cats or kittens sometimes climb up trees in panic and get trapped because they have never learned how to get down from a tree. These cats do need rescue, otherwise they will either die in the tree or fall. Experienced cats sit on trees waiting for danger to pass before climbing down. Due to the fact that they may have to wait for a long time on top, people often think they are trapped in trees, but in fact, this is not the case. As a result, when emergency rescue arrived, they quickly and easily came down from the tree.

The self-protection ability of cats

Climbing trees is a self-defense ability of cats

So, why don't cats get hurt when they fall from a high place? This is related to cats having developed balance systems and comprehensive body protection mechanisms. When a cat falls from the air, regardless of whether it starts with its back down and its feet upside down, it can always quickly turn around during the descent. When it approaches the ground, its forelimbs are ready for landing. The thick fat pads on the cat's toes can greatly reduce the vibration of the ground facing the cat's body. It can effectively prevent the damage caused by vibration to various organs. The tail of a cat is also a balancing organ, like the tail wing of an airplane, which can keep the body balanced. In addition, cats have well-developed limbs, short forelimbs, and long hind limbs, which are conducive to jumping. Its motor nerves are well-developed, the body is soft, the muscles and ligaments are strong, and the balance ability is perfect. Therefore, even if there is a large drop during climbing and jumping, it will not fall to decease due to losing balance.

summary

We often think about how great it would be if we could fly and walk walls like characters in martial arts movies, and have lightness skills. And with cats possessing this ability, would you be impressed by them?