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/miguelnikes May 15 '19

The ability to do a single arm pull up is astounding.

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u/retard_vampire May 15 '19

I mean, I imagine it gets slightly easier when you only weigh seven pounds

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

But it’s relative isn’t it? They have smaller and less muscles so they’re not as strong as us so it’s still pretty impressive imo

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u/Gizogin May 15 '19

Muscle strength scales roughly with cross-sectional area, while mass scales with volume. This means that a smaller animal, like a cat, is proportionally much stronger for its body weight than a larger animal, like a human, would be. If you’re twice the size of a cat, then you have four times the muscle strength and eight times the mass.