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Show Why Cats Fall on Feet Faculty Is One Which is Especially Developed by All Climbing and Leaping Animals. An Ingenious model has been constructed con-structed to Bhow why a cat in falling nlways alights on Its feet. The Imitation Imi-tation cat consists of a cardboard cylinder, cyl-inder, with four rodB stuck in It for logs, and a tall dovlscd on similar principles; and tho objoct Ib to show that a cat's faculty of falling on Its feet dopends on tho rotation of lta tall. Some interesting Information on this problem Is given by tho auporln-.tejuloLjifzooBljal auporln-.tejuloLjifzooBljal garden, who tins mado several experlmenTs. TUB" faculty of always falling on tho feot Is ono which Is especially developed, ho claims, by climbing nnd loaplng animals, In which category aro Included In-cluded all tho cat tribo, monkoys, squirrels, rats and most lemurs. Tho Instinct Is born In thorn, and tho ar of twiBtlng Is performed without any conscious effort on tho part of tho animal. Tho opinion Is that tho tall plays an Important part in the turning procoss. "All treo-inhabltlng monkoys havo long tails," says thla authority, "and thero 1b not tho slightest doubt that the tail Ib tho greatest possiblo advantago to all climbers fn helping them to turn. It also acts as a good balancer. You may sco a squirrel walk along a tightly-stretched wire or string, swinging its tail from side to side, Just as a tlght-iopo walkor balances bal-ances his polo. "Some years ago I had somo rats whoso tails had been cut off, and thoy wero not sueir g&TOT'cllmtTOTB-OT-onli'-nary rats. And it is just tho same with monkoys; thoso whloh havo not long tails are not so good nt climbing and cannot leap to tho same extent. It Ib noticeable that monkeys which hnve given up climbing, trees havo lost tholr tails." ' |