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Mystery #4Tier 2-3spinning / motion

How do cats twist to land on their feet?

If a cat slips and tumbles upside-down, it can somehow flip itself over in mid-air and land neatly on its feet, even though there's nothing up there to push against. How does it turn with nothing to push on?

A cat leaping through the air toward a ledge.
Photo: Hisashi · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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