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Bill Ryan, of Inwood, New York, comforts his cat Amy before leaving her at a pet shelter at Mitchell Park’s Field House, run by the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management and Pet Safe Coalition in Uniondale, New York, on October, 28, 2012. Pet owners could leave their pets at the shelter and afterwards seek shelter for themselves before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.(AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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Cats & Others in Zero G (Gravity) for Science

Cats only land on their feet when they know which way is down. Researchers at the Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio sent cats flying in a C-131 jet on a trajectory that gave them 15 seconds of weightlessness. This footage is from an Air Force film called Bioastronautics Research.

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Video: U.S. Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratorie

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Cooling off: A white Bengal tiger takes solace in a cool block of ice provided by zookeepers on July 20 at the Chengdu Zoo in China’s Sichuan Province.