You could infer it statistically from microchip data.
Track the last-seen time for every registered cat.
Any registered cat which has not been to any vet within X amount of time is probably dead.
Cross reference the probably-dead cats with the height of the last known address.
With enough samples you should be able to figure it out.
Well the one thing that I’d say in a situation like this one is whether it’s ain’t coming back or not really depends on a phenom of what is otherwise called the dead cat bounce where a stock will tank to a point then market sentiment reverses and people pile in and pump the price up a little bit before realising it’s all shit and then piling out again and that causes the stock price to go down even more so in this scenario if it was say the mechanistic neomarxist alacrity ala dead car bounce then I guess you may not come back from this one but again you could take a conservative approach like a dollar cost average which means you basically buy a set dollar amount of the share at a regular time interval regardless of market conditions causing the net effect of buying more stock for less and less stock for more and that could be a good way to go about it otherwise I’d just cut your losses depending on what the dead car bounce is and then move onto other thing don’t forget to hug your kids x
For all the strange comments sympathizing with the (probably desperate) cat and then shaming others for watching this video or calling others psychos - have you all seen the state of the world we live in?
Is watching and chuckling at this video really that great a moral sin?
Also, do you all really think that we’re anything other than monsters as a species?
Gimme a break. That cat died a long time ago. The world is messed up. Nobody cares. Irony and indifference and dark gallows humor are all sane rational responses in an insane world.
Stop virtue signaling and focus on your portfolio.
You're bordering on obsession here.
That said, I would expect it's time based. I doubt the cat has awareness of altitude beyond a certain distance. Similar to people who think cats are cruel because they play with mice, researchers inject their own anthropomorphic biases.
While it could be that they try to go into some sort of flight mode based on some idle lesser used instinctive mode. I doubt there's an evolutionary adaptation to falls over ten stories. It's unlikely to happen to a cat in the wild often enough to result in selection. More likely it's simply that after not hitting the ground they think they aren't going to hit the ground, or cannot maintain the crash posture and relax.
https://archive.vn/6BTJi
https://ramadosss.weebly.com/uploads/5/8/7/2/58728489/article_-_how_cats_survive_falls_from_ny_skyscrapers_2.pdf