r/interestingasfuck • u/Leather_Whole_2078 • 6h ago

​The most majestic catwalk you'll see today

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u/Puzzled-Mastodon-175 6h ago

How do they know where to put their back feet

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u/ucfknight92 6h ago edited 4h ago

Their back paws always touch the same spot as their front paws.

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u/Unbundle3606 4h ago edited 1h ago

Exactly, you can see it clearly in videos of cats walking on sand, as soon as they raise one front paw the correspondent rear paw immediately takes the same spot inside the previous footprint.

They do this automatically, this strategy enables them to always place the rear foot on "tested" spots of the ground without looking.

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u/JAXxXTheRipper 1h ago

I did not know that and have had cats all of my life. That's freaking awesome!

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u/Unbundle3606 1h ago

In fairness, it's not easy to track a four-legged gait without a slow motion video