RE: 🐿️🐿️ TIL: Squirrels Are Immune To Heights 🐿️🐿️

It's not just the terminal velocity, but also the weight of the animal falling. Humans are heavy. Bigger animals have more mass, and more mass means more kinetic energy as velocity increases. When you hit the ground with a high mass this creates exponentially more force as your cells ping pong off the floor. Your own weight crushes you.

There are plenty of videos of cats jumping down from a height of 30 feet and being totally fine and running off. You could probably throw a squirrel out of a plane and if it landed on grass it wouldn't even be hurt in the slightest.