Animals that fall upside down typically engage in an aerial righting response so as to reorient dorsoventrally. This behavior can be preparatory to gliding or other controlled aerial behaviors and is ...

Cats are renowned for always landing on their feet. While that’s not entirely true, “cat physics” sounds like an oxymoron. Scientific laws don’t appear to apply to animals that can squeeze into ...

Over 1 million TikTok users have watched the moment a cat fell from a balcony. It turns out the saying "cats always land on their feet" is true in this case as Hank has a soft landing on the sofa. But ...

A hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) protects mice against ethanol-induced loss of balance and righting reflex, according to a new study. A hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21 ...

LONDON. Royal Society, June 11.—R. Magnus: Animal posture (Croonian Lecture). Postural centres in brain-stem compound the body musculature to com bined action. Postural stimuli arise from many ...

CAT RIGHTING REFLEX: The word on the RIGHT of each theme answer can be paired with the word CAT to form a new phrase: LAP CAT, ALLEY CAT, and HOUSE CAT. Well, you know I'm going to be a fan of any ...

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A hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) protects mice against ethanol-induced loss of balance and righting reflex, according to a study publishing on March 7 in the journal Cell ...