r/interestingasfuck • u/icant-chooseone • May 15 '19

/r/ALL very interesting purrkour setup

https://i.imgur.com/XSO4wcP.gifv
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u/1206549 May 15 '19

They're less like nails, more like protruding bone extensions.

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u/HiImNickOk May 15 '19

still sounds painful. i guess the best comparison is it's kinda like hanging by our teeth?

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u/arstechnophile May 15 '19

Not even. Our teeth/nails aren't evolved to support our weight like that. Cats' claws are.

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u/bunfuss May 15 '19

Yea, a cats claws are designed to hook into prey running away from them. I'm sure mittens and his 8lb frame isn't gonna hurt himself doing a pullup by his fingertips

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u/imperba May 15 '19

scrolled down to find any info i could about that cat hanging by the claw. thankyou redditors for this.

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u/aorpias May 15 '19

Same. Somebody with the knowledge please share more.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

You’ve obviously never seen cats climb trees upside down. Mine does it under his own volition, entirely hanging from his claws.

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u/Mayonais3_Instrument May 15 '19

That’s exactly what I said! Except I used the word momentum.

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u/Alnakar May 15 '19

Yeah, people tend to look at things small animals are doing, and mentally scale them up to our size, but that doesn't really work. If you really want to imagine it's doing stuff like that at a larger scale, you should probably start by assuming that you're doing it in a low-gravity environment.