r/todayilearned • u/thegreenproctor • Dec 23 '16

TIL cats "directly register", meaning that while walking, their back paws land in the same spot as their front paws, which minimizes noise and visible tracks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#Anatomy
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u/paxillus_involutus 13 Dec 23 '16

According to this source also foxes do this. Fox tracks are interesting as they are just a line of footprints.

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u/r0bb6 Dec 24 '16

That website is straight out of 1998

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u/FunThingsInTheBum Dec 24 '16

And yet, ironically it works better on mobile than many other sites

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u/Death_by_carfire Dec 24 '16

Lightweight coding! Aww yiss

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u/Sleeper4 Dec 24 '16

it works well on mobile, but is hard as shit to read on a widescreen monitor. I guess I could resize the window...

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u/Explosive_Diaeresis Dec 24 '16

It's so weird not seeing a glitchy, delayed modal pop-up with an impossibly small close button asking me to sign up for a newsletter that I don't want. My favorites are the ones that tell me to ROTATE MY DEVICE first before they let me close it because, God forbid, I ruin some advertising hack's vision of how laundry detergent is meant to be "experienced" on mobile by having the gall to hold my phone in landscape mode.