Amazing flying cats

Cats cleaving the air with clawed paws are reminiscent of participants in a movie about martial arts. However, these are just the pets of Japanese photographer Seiji Mamiya, jumping after soft toys. The 39-year-old Japanese man started taking pictures of cats in his backyard about a year ago. When Mr. Mamiya won over the animals, he realized that he could make them jump. This idea formed the basis of his future photographic works.

1. Cats are very cute and graceful animals.

2. Mamiya says - “I shoot cats in a jump during the game. I shake the toy, and when the cat runs up to it, I lift the toy up.

3. Mamiya admits that in the future he would like to film big wild cats hunting in the wilderness. “But I have to figure out how to do it in the least dangerous way,” he reasons.

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5. The Japanese finds the movements of cats in the air very graceful and compares his tailed pets to ninjas.

6. The pussy is angry.

7. When a cat falls, they reflexively take the position in the air that is necessary for landing on their paws.

8. At the same time, a very mobile tail plays the role of a stabilizer (in tailless cats, the whole body acts as a stabilizer). An additional protective measure is the reflex spreading of the paws to the sides, as a result of which the surface of the cat's body increases, and the "parachute effect" is triggered.

9. Cats do not land on their feet when they fall from great heights, but rather on their stomachs, new research has shown.

10. Cats are very clean animals. They wash themselves, licking their fur, at least ten times a day; their saliva is an effective cleaning agent.

11. At home, cats like to play with small objects: balls, balls of thread, sticks, crumpled paper, special toys for cats.

12. Often, cats are attracted to dangling and suspended objects, as they have the ability to move in the air, which imitates a cat's hunt for birds. Particularly prone to play are kittens that already have hunting instincts, but do not yet have hunting skills and precise coordination of movements.

13. Domestic cats play at all ages, but kittens are much more playful than adult cats and can play with anything: a bell, a ball rolling on the floor, string, a telephone wire, even their own tail, etc.

14. The love of cats for games is explained by the phenomenon of neoteny (childishness), which is due to the very process of domesticating a cat.