[vetvetdoug]

Angel Memorial Hospital did a study about ten years ago of cats that had fallen out of high risers. Basically any cat that fell out of the fifth story or higher went splat. The study listed the injuries from those that fell from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. After the fifth story the animals had too many injuries or the fall was fatal. There were a couple of exceptions of cats falling out of ten stories and surviving but there were just a few. I think the study had a population of around three hundred so it was statistically significant. The study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

[Tucson]

Works for me! I don't recall whether the Natural History article was more what-if conjecture or if it included an actual analysis of available data. It was an end-of-magazine article which often were more folk lore than a peer reviewed study.