I used to know a vet in HK who wrote paper on what she called “The Flying Cat Syndrome”. In places where cats live in high buildings they will occasionally fall out a high rise window. Almost miraculously the cats could often survive a fall from 40 stories or higher. If the fall was from 10 to 20 stories they always died. They’d break bones when they fell from higher floors up but live.
She surmised that in longer falls they relaxed and spread out to slow themselves down but didn’t know because there was no way to experiment except by tossing animals out of high windows which was not ethical
They didn't have a Fauci.