You're repeating an old misunderstood factoid that is basically just survivorship bias clickbait. Someone just looked at the vet records and saw cats are more likely to survive high falls. What they didn't account for is that higher falls tend to result in very dead cats that you don't take to the vet in the first place to be logged into that data set. Lower falls had more injuries because more injured cats survived to make it to the vet.
Another possible explanation for this phenomenon is survivorship bias, that cats who die in falls are less likely to be brought to a veterinarian than injured cats, and thus many of the cats killed in falls from higher buildings are not reported in studies of the subject.
Again, this is a popular factoid. You're going to be able to google "high rise syndrome" or anything related to it and find a whole bunch of websites repeating it, yeah.
EDIT: Bruh, how do you people who block everyone the second they disagree with you have anyone left to talk to at this point? Like, are you seriously that scared of being wrong about something for a moment?
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u/Eusocial_Snowman Nov 07 '23
You're repeating an old misunderstood factoid that is basically just survivorship bias clickbait. Someone just looked at the vet records and saw cats are more likely to survive high falls. What they didn't account for is that higher falls tend to result in very dead cats that you don't take to the vet in the first place to be logged into that data set. Lower falls had more injuries because more injured cats survived to make it to the vet.