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From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Squirrel Questions (really cats)
Keywords: drag TERMINAL velocity
Message-ID: <645@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 18 Oct 88 17:13:02 GMT
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In article <14847@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> dean@violet.berkeley.edu
(Dean Pentcheff) writes:
>In article <3768@boulder.Colorado.EDU> pell@boulder.Colorado.EDU
(Anthony Pelletier) writes:
>.In article <3519@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>.>	There was a study that I saw not too long ago that dealt with the
>.>mortality rate of cats falling over various distances.
>.
>.I saw this article also, thought my recolection of it is a bit different.
>
>OK, I saw this article also, but I _also_ can't remember where.  Does
>someone have the reference?  Please?
>
>Dean Pentcheff        dean@violet.berkeley.edu
>
>To acquire imunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the
>citizens of a democracy.                          Bertrand Russell

Looks like many people didn't get my previous posting on this!
An original source is in Nature, it gives other references:

@article{Diamond1988,
author = "J. M. Diamond",
title = "Why cats have nine lives",
journal = "Nature",
volume = "332",
pages = "586-587",
year = "1988"}

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland
  toms@ncifcrf.gov