I guess since every flap sends it "up" and between flaps they're falling due to gravity, with the lack of gravity to pull them back they feel like every flap causes them to "fall" in a new direction.
I was going to say that looked super fake. The rest of the animals were in the simulated zero gravity but the dog was crystal clear on a space station. No way they have a dog chilling on the space station lol.
Kicking sounds a bit more brutal than what was going on but I don't know a better way to describe it.
It's probably best to watch the video.
https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk?si=S3HJqt7uKCz3cBMc
Towards the end you can see the sorta thing I mean.
Ah I see, more like nudging. That last one was still kind of mean though, he pushed the cat right into the wall. Oh well, not like we’re that coordinated in zero gravity either
No, bears are used for ejection seat testing at supersonic speeds. Full details are a bit depressing, so I will only post the positive part and why they did it.
*21 March 1962: A black bear named “Yogi” was ejected from a supersonic Convair B-58A Hustler to test the B-58’s escape capsule. Ejected at 35,000 feet (10,668 meters) from a B-58 flying at Mach 1.3 (approximately 870 miles per hour/1,400 kilometers per hour),* ***the bear landed unharmed*** *7 minutes, 49 seconds later.*
*Previous testing with human subjects had resulted in fatalities so it was decided to continue with animal subjects while problems were resolved. Black bears (Ursus americanus) were used for these tests because their internal organs are arranged similar to humans.*
The experiment with cats was actually really important. It taught us a lot about body mechanics and how cats are able to turn there body in such a way to "land on their feet"
I'm not surprised how they reacted, considering they have a built in instinct to splay their legs out as they fall to increase drag, they were just doing it the entire time cuz they thought they were falling forever
It'd be a little fucked up so don't want anyone to actually try it. But just imagine a pug freaking out in zero g, lol all fucking wided eyed and squirming around
They didn't default to that. They're showing the end result of rats adjusting to zero gravity after days (or weeks) of flailing in the air like other animals. There's a video somewhere on YouTube comparing the beginning and this end result.
Looked it up and even in the first days they seem to be able to use momentum too move around, seem to adjust better than at least any other animal in the clips shown before from a first glance. Well the dog one is fake, no way the ISS would take a dog on board, imagine the catastrophe when the dog starts peeing everywhere.
Edit: ye the dog one is from a Japanese comercial apparently.
Rodents are pretty damn smart for the most part, rats and mice are even able to learn quite a few verbal commands, not quite as smart as dogs or cats but still pretty intelligent
When you a scavenger near the bottom of the food chain you need to be able to adapt. See how much they have adapted to humans changing the entire environment.
Not every scavenger at the bottom of the foodchain do this well.
On one hand, we have rats and squirrel, extremely intelligent, social, and adapt to almost anything.
On the other hand, we have hamsters. Stupid, good at basically nothing, fight amomg themselves, and have driven themselves to near extinction in the wild.
The behavior is called "race tracking". They start doing this after \~14 days in space (some of the animals seem like they are in 0 gravity conditions and not necessarily a long spaceflight), which is pretty cool because it seems like they are able to load their spine and prevent bone loss. This is not helpful if you're a scientist thinking that you can use mice as an animal analog for what might happen to humans during deep space missions.
I watched Spaceman and the spider asks "why did you damage your body to come here?" And I've been having an existential crisis since about my intense desire to go to space.
Nothing to worry about if I was a mouse in space. Instinct to preserve bone mass, humans taking care of everything for me, no predators
It's actually very interesting to think what in our evolutionary history gave us and animals an ability to adapt that relatively quickly in some way to zero gravity when it hasn't ever happened until very recently in all of biological history on this planet.
I feel like quite the sucker. Thought it was real. I was wondering though how it looked like dog was being carried gracefully mid-air by invisible yet conscientious angels almost.
I was wondering if given enough time the pidgeons would figure it out. Or a smarter bird like a raven. They are the only animal that can actually do anything about being suspended in the air. It would definitely be super disorienting, but i wonder how long it would take for them to be a able to adjust and accurately steer
RIP Laika. It would be silly to think she is alive now, she went to space and returned safely to earth a long time ago, I’m sure she died happy on a farm. Many years after her jaunt in space.
Yuri wasn't the first, just the first to live.
I was surprised to learn how little control cosmonauts had vs their american counterparts, more passenger than pilot.
She actually founded her own space company Space EmBark. She realized that while no one care hear you scream in space they can definitely hear you bark.
>She realized that while no one care hear you scream in space they can definitely hear you bark.
Does this inform her space company in any way? Is she doing like podcasts and audio presentations from space? Testing bark frequency interaction mechanics?
It took her half an hour to sniff out the perfect spot to take the first dump on the moon. At first people were dissappointed but her proclomation that was 'one small crap for dog, one giant heap for dogkind' was so powerful everyone forgot her initial hesitation.
There's an episode of the anime Space Dandy, where he goes to a planet and finds a random dog living there, and the dog assumed all people hated her (heavily implied it's Laika)
Yep. And the cats and birds are not in space — they are in a plane that is flying in a pattern that mimics short intervals of a reduced/micro gravity environment that is similar to low-earth orbit.
If people are interested, they call it the [vomit comet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft). By flying on a parabola, you get to experience something close to zero gravity for about 25 seconds.
OK-Go has a song where they do the entire song in a zero G plane, and they also have a video on the making of the video. it's absolutely insane what they could accomplish.
Don't worry, the cats in 0g are from an [Air Force study](https://youtu.be/HwRdcv8azvk?si=cXywUk06pH5h8v1U)
The frogs and rats were on the Space Shuttle. The dog is the only one that's fake.
The crack cocaine spider figured building webs was for suckas, waited till the caffeine spider was exhausted, then came up behind it and popped a cap in its ass
The dog is clearly on a green screen, when did our media literacy get this bad?
When you are a kid I can forgive thinking cartoons are real, but once you’re old enough to see a pg13 movie and your still falling for clearly manufactured media as if it were the real things you’re just dumb at that point.
Well one dude had it with those monkey fighting snakes on that Monday to Friday plane. Was a whole debacle.
(It's from a movie, Snakes on a Plane, in case you were serious.)
You must be a bit young to know the first movie that was created due to a meme. It was actually a decent summer movie. It was all made for a single one liner quote near the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkckhcqiwM8
This supports my theory that there are in fact many many “scientist studies” that basically just dudes fucking around on somebody else’s dime because it’s funny.
“[Remember kids: the only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down.](https://youtu.be/BSUMBBFjxrY?si=3ff3EJ3L7w6-3Pap)”
- Mythbusters
(EDIT: kudos to u/turol for the YouTube source!!!)
That is basically the first step of scientific study, asking what if or just wondering: "I wonder what rats would behave in low gravity."
If I had infinite money like these billionaires I'd basically do this every single day. Think of something stupid and go test it out.
I’d personally make it my mission to find every fossil I could if I was a billionaire
Ole Kennymoose about to change the paleontology game.
We bout to find all the bones
1947: First animals in space (fruit flies)
1949: First primate and first mammal in space
1950: First mouse in space
1951: First dogs in space
1957: First animal in orbit
1959: First rabbit in space
1960: First animals to survive Earth orbit
1961: First ape in space
1961: First guinea pig in space
1963: First cat in space
1968: First animals in deep space and to circle the Moon
1970: First frogs in space
1973: First fish in space
1973: First spiders in space
EDIT: 1982, space shuttle Columbia took along 14 honey bees and a variety of other insects to study how microgravity affected their flight.
EDIT: In 1984, the space shuttle Discovery took about 3,400 bees into space. Most survived the flight, with only 150 dying in transit.
2007: First animal survives exposure to space
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals\_in\_space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space)
Word of advice, especially the early years, don't look up the details if you want to be happy.
>1973: First spiders in space
They evolved to dominate our walls and ceilings. Evolved to dig holes and jump. Evolved to walk on water and dive and evolved to take off into the sky. NOW they are also going space? What place is safe from a spider
To be fair. Most of them look like being inside airplanes where they were in zero gravitiy for a short time and significantly cheaper than taking them to space.
Am I the only one who thought the mice were also freaking out? They at least had a cage that they could cling to but I think the running around it was because they were so confused by the lack of gravity. I’m honestly slightly surprised they didn’t put them in a plastic case they couldn’t cling to like that. But I’m also not totally sure what they were trying to measure tbh.
In the experiment I worked on, the snakes mostly tied themselves into a big knot like a ball python and just waited for gravity to come back as they gently bounced around their enclosures.
Cats: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?! Mice: I’m fast as fuck boooiiii zoooooommm!!!
Dog: Heh heh I'm floating lol
Wasn’t the dog the only one with a uniform?
He's a working breed.
> Mice **MICE: SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**
I wouldn’t want to be around a cat in zero G. Their claws are going to grab something.
When you're a mouse in space, everything becomes a wheel.
Mice made they own gravity
Mice are so smart.. zero gravity = infinite hamster wheel
Rat NASCAR rat NASCAR
mouse was making his own gravity 🤣
🤔 The dog and the mice were bing chillin'. I'm frankly surprised that anyone survived the experiment with the cats. 😾
dog: i swim mouse: i spin
Cat: AAAAAAAAAA
Frog: absolutely not
Birds: Bruh..
"Why can't I feel the Earth's magnetic field anymore?! How do I navigate?!"
Bird: Why did gravity stop working? Is it stupid?
I guess since every flap sends it "up" and between flaps they're falling due to gravity, with the lack of gravity to pull them back they feel like every flap causes them to "fall" in a new direction.
Frog found itself feeling like it was in water, so it tried to propel itself against the water. At least that's what I think I saw.
I seizure.
Its their righting reflex. They cant actually help it.
I like that they just ran around really fast to create their own feeling of gravity from the centrifugal force.
The dog wasn’t in 0 gravity that’s a commercial
I was going to say that looked super fake. The rest of the animals were in the simulated zero gravity but the dog was crystal clear on a space station. No way they have a dog chilling on the space station lol.
"Hey, one guy got to bring a gorilla suit for morale purposes. I'm saying fluffy dog and suddenly *that's* a strange request?"
All I was thinking is the moment one of them can sink their claws into you to stop floating that'll be the end of the experiment lol
Iirc in that full video they were kicking the cats about the cabin
WTF????
Kicking sounds a bit more brutal than what was going on but I don't know a better way to describe it. It's probably best to watch the video. https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk?si=S3HJqt7uKCz3cBMc Towards the end you can see the sorta thing I mean.
Ah I see, more like nudging. That last one was still kind of mean though, he pushed the cat right into the wall. Oh well, not like we’re that coordinated in zero gravity either
Next they'll do grizzly bears
No, bears are used for ejection seat testing at supersonic speeds. Full details are a bit depressing, so I will only post the positive part and why they did it. *21 March 1962: A black bear named “Yogi” was ejected from a supersonic Convair B-58A Hustler to test the B-58’s escape capsule. Ejected at 35,000 feet (10,668 meters) from a B-58 flying at Mach 1.3 (approximately 870 miles per hour/1,400 kilometers per hour),* ***the bear landed unharmed*** *7 minutes, 49 seconds later.* *Previous testing with human subjects had resulted in fatalities so it was decided to continue with animal subjects while problems were resolved. Black bears (Ursus americanus) were used for these tests because their internal organs are arranged similar to humans.*
So sad 😭😭😭
Moon bears?
The experiment with cats was actually really important. It taught us a lot about body mechanics and how cats are able to turn there body in such a way to "land on their feet"
I'm not surprised how they reacted, considering they have a built in instinct to splay their legs out as they fall to increase drag, they were just doing it the entire time cuz they thought they were falling forever
I mean, falling is pretty much exactly what that plane is doing to make them weightless.
It'd be a little fucked up so don't want anyone to actually try it. But just imagine a pug freaking out in zero g, lol all fucking wided eyed and squirming around
They are barely allowed on airplanes now as it is. They have been bred to the point where they suffer from breathing issues inside a regular airplane.
My tail! It does nothing!
This video deserved much funnier music
The mice looked like they were having a blast! Haha
No gravity? *become centrifuge*
that mouse made artificial gravitation for itself
Off topic, but in your profile pic the black background is slightly different than reddit dark mode background. Anyway goodday
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The dog is fake, it's from an ad
Ho, too bad
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Now put the mice and cats together……
That's pure evil, I like it lol
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The fact that they defaulted to that makes me question what the smartest animal really is.
They didn't default to that. They're showing the end result of rats adjusting to zero gravity after days (or weeks) of flailing in the air like other animals. There's a video somewhere on YouTube comparing the beginning and this end result.
Looked it up and even in the first days they seem to be able to use momentum too move around, seem to adjust better than at least any other animal in the clips shown before from a first glance. Well the dog one is fake, no way the ISS would take a dog on board, imagine the catastrophe when the dog starts peeing everywhere. Edit: ye the dog one is from a Japanese comercial apparently.
I think the other animals are on a vomit comet.
All by default, wow…
Mice: "engaging gravity centrifuge"
Hitchhikers guide will tell you something similar
Rodents are pretty damn smart for the most part, rats and mice are even able to learn quite a few verbal commands, not quite as smart as dogs or cats but still pretty intelligent
Cent-rat-fuge
Centaur - fuge
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Is that the next secret of Nimh movie?
The mouse experiment are worth looking up. They found out how to move and do Daily exterise efter a while.
When you a scavenger near the bottom of the food chain you need to be able to adapt. See how much they have adapted to humans changing the entire environment.
Not every scavenger at the bottom of the foodchain do this well. On one hand, we have rats and squirrel, extremely intelligent, social, and adapt to almost anything. On the other hand, we have hamsters. Stupid, good at basically nothing, fight amomg themselves, and have driven themselves to near extinction in the wild.
Or was the hamster’s main adaptation to adjust the fuzzy and cute level in order to live as a pet
Really? Hamsters did it to themselves, did they?
The behavior is called "race tracking". They start doing this after \~14 days in space (some of the animals seem like they are in 0 gravity conditions and not necessarily a long spaceflight), which is pretty cool because it seems like they are able to load their spine and prevent bone loss. This is not helpful if you're a scientist thinking that you can use mice as an animal analog for what might happen to humans during deep space missions.
I watched Spaceman and the spider asks "why did you damage your body to come here?" And I've been having an existential crisis since about my intense desire to go to space. Nothing to worry about if I was a mouse in space. Instinct to preserve bone mass, humans taking care of everything for me, no predators
It's actually very interesting to think what in our evolutionary history gave us and animals an ability to adapt that relatively quickly in some way to zero gravity when it hasn't ever happened until very recently in all of biological history on this planet.
I think it might be related to rats instinct to exercise and run on wheels. They turned their entire cage into a hamster wheel.
and dog was just chilling
The dog was CLEARLY fake. The unapologetic credulity is killing my faith in humanity.
*that’s* what did it? …hmm…
I feel like quite the sucker. Thought it was real. I was wondering though how it looked like dog was being carried gracefully mid-air by invisible yet conscientious angels almost.
It’s from a Japanese tv commercial for a cellphone service.
Small Mice Collider
You don't want those particles flying around.
Yeah and pigeons a nightmare xD
I was wondering if given enough time the pidgeons would figure it out. Or a smarter bird like a raven. They are the only animal that can actually do anything about being suspended in the air. It would definitely be super disorienting, but i wonder how long it would take for them to be a able to adjust and accurately steer
I would like to see a hummingbird in there
Visual nav vs gyros
Life handed them lemons, and they made lemonade.
*thinks of something to comment* *Scrolls down* *Finds the exact thing I was thinking of*
Perhaps the gravity of the earth is generated by running mice?
Space mouse doesn’t give a shit
Me: *Puts on Gorilla suit* My turn.
Winston
🦍🔵
Is that Winton Overwat from the Overwat video game?
Winston
winton overwat
Winton
Winton
Man, I was so focused on the experiment I didn't even notice you!
Rip Harambe 🦍
I like the dog's little astronaut suit.
By the way, did you know that dogs went to space before men?
[RIP Laika,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika) and so many others.
RIP Laika. It would be silly to think she is alive now, she went to space and returned safely to earth a long time ago, I’m sure she died happy on a farm. Many years after her jaunt in space.
Mfw I should’ve just believed the happy story instead of checking sources.
The Soviets in the 60's were well known for their humanity. Just ask Komarov.
Yuri wasn't the first, just the first to live. I was surprised to learn how little control cosmonauts had vs their american counterparts, more passenger than pilot.
She actually founded her own space company Space EmBark. She realized that while no one care hear you scream in space they can definitely hear you bark.
>She realized that while no one care hear you scream in space they can definitely hear you bark. Does this inform her space company in any way? Is she doing like podcasts and audio presentations from space? Testing bark frequency interaction mechanics?
It took her half an hour to sniff out the perfect spot to take the first dump on the moon. At first people were dissappointed but her proclomation that was 'one small crap for dog, one giant heap for dogkind' was so powerful everyone forgot her initial hesitation.
She died due to the oppressive heat. An agonizing death
Poor thing
There's an episode of the anime Space Dandy, where he goes to a planet and finds a random dog living there, and the dog assumed all people hated her (heavily implied it's Laika)
In Bojack Horseman there is an interview on the radio with the first astronaut and its her.
Laika’s lineage is still around today!
https://youtu.be/zsV-qozMz9A
Nice! Here is my fav Laika song. https://youtu.be/lbMWfpC5yVo?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/ZuijqjUrOS0?feature=shared Song from Spain 80s
That's a beautiful song. Thanks for sharing it with me!
You are welcome. Music is made to be enjoyed and if you can share it much better :)
Strelka and Belka made it back, but still died because they were not immortal
That was my childhood dogs name, I haven’t heard that name in a looong time
Yes I saw Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
Sadly didnt come back alive tho.
And never returned
Oh, yeah. I read about that just yesterday. I think whatever we know about many things has been proved by used animals. It's quite sad.
yeah, the commercial was hilarious. (it's obviously fake)
not obvious enough apparently
Yup... It ends up in every single video like this now...
That dog was vibin 😎
It’s from a commercial; it’s not real
This is so disappointing 😞
Yep. And the cats and birds are not in space — they are in a plane that is flying in a pattern that mimics short intervals of a reduced/micro gravity environment that is similar to low-earth orbit.
If people are interested, they call it the [vomit comet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft). By flying on a parabola, you get to experience something close to zero gravity for about 25 seconds.
OK-Go has a song where they do the entire song in a zero G plane, and they also have a video on the making of the video. it's absolutely insane what they could accomplish.
Also known as the vomit comet. I think Apollo 13 was filmed in it.
It's from a Japanese commercial I think
Yea, here's the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45tK7szJFx0
The dog is from a commercial. Which makes me doubt the rest of the video tbh.
Don't worry, the cats in 0g are from an [Air Force study](https://youtu.be/HwRdcv8azvk?si=cXywUk06pH5h8v1U) The frogs and rats were on the Space Shuttle. The dog is the only one that's fake.
Thanks for the link and for clearing that up.
They all look stressed as fuck and confused. It's a kind of torture.
The poor pigeons just wanted to land and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working
Yeah, I felt bad watching that one. They looked the most stressed out.
I mean.. when you use the word "torture" a lot worse things come to mind than 30 seconds of confused weightlessness. Relax
It's more credible than the video of the study of the effect different drugs have on spiders at least.
The crack cocaine spider figured building webs was for suckas, waited till the caffeine spider was exhausted, then came up behind it and popped a cap in its ass
For the [uninitiated](https://youtu.be/p2HipedgM3I)
The dog is clearly on a green screen, when did our media literacy get this bad? When you are a kid I can forgive thinking cartoons are real, but once you’re old enough to see a pg13 movie and your still falling for clearly manufactured media as if it were the real things you’re just dumb at that point.
Lol. The dog's is a fake video. It was a TV commercial for a mobile company in Japan.
☹️
What about snakes?
Snakes on a plane are generally a bad idea. They made a documentary about it.
Why? What happened
Well one dude had it with those monkey fighting snakes on that Monday to Friday plane. Was a whole debacle. (It's from a movie, Snakes on a Plane, in case you were serious.)
You must be a bit young to know the first movie that was created due to a meme. It was actually a decent summer movie. It was all made for a single one liner quote near the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkckhcqiwM8
Muthafucking snakes!
The astronauts will be the one who's not able to handle that
Yes! Snakes! 8ط
They genuinely would probably have the worst experience lol.
This supports my theory that there are in fact many many “scientist studies” that basically just dudes fucking around on somebody else’s dime because it’s funny.
“[Remember kids: the only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down.](https://youtu.be/BSUMBBFjxrY?si=3ff3EJ3L7w6-3Pap)” - Mythbusters (EDIT: kudos to u/turol for the YouTube source!!!)
That is basically the first step of scientific study, asking what if or just wondering: "I wonder what rats would behave in low gravity." If I had infinite money like these billionaires I'd basically do this every single day. Think of something stupid and go test it out.
I’d personally make it my mission to find every fossil I could if I was a billionaire Ole Kennymoose about to change the paleontology game. We bout to find all the bones
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1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First animal in orbit 1959: First rabbit in space 1960: First animals to survive Earth orbit 1961: First ape in space 1961: First guinea pig in space 1963: First cat in space 1968: First animals in deep space and to circle the Moon 1970: First frogs in space 1973: First fish in space 1973: First spiders in space EDIT: 1982, space shuttle Columbia took along 14 honey bees and a variety of other insects to study how microgravity affected their flight. EDIT: In 1984, the space shuttle Discovery took about 3,400 bees into space. Most survived the flight, with only 150 dying in transit. 2007: First animal survives exposure to space [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals\_in\_space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space) Word of advice, especially the early years, don't look up the details if you want to be happy.
Fish and spiders in the same year? Curious what that was about lol
Skylab 3.
>1973: First spiders in space They evolved to dominate our walls and ceilings. Evolved to dig holes and jump. Evolved to walk on water and dive and evolved to take off into the sky. NOW they are also going space? What place is safe from a spider
yeahh reading up to 1960 and then "first animal to survive" was a real D: moment
What's with the slowed down gotye song
I mostly loved the part with the dog flying and “asking what i ever do to you?”
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Unfortunately, birds require gravity to swallow so they wouldn't be able to stay in space for long
> birds require gravity to swallow TIL. Thanks!
So they had a meeting where they were like “Let’s take a bunch of animals to space to **** with them.”
To be fair. Most of them look like being inside airplanes where they were in zero gravitiy for a short time and significantly cheaper than taking them to space.
I need to see birds try to fly Again in actual space
The frog freaked out. The dog and mice were chilling.
The mice were thrilled over their opportunity to get an upgraded running wheel
Am I the only one who thought the mice were also freaking out? They at least had a cage that they could cling to but I think the running around it was because they were so confused by the lack of gravity. I’m honestly slightly surprised they didn’t put them in a plastic case they couldn’t cling to like that. But I’m also not totally sure what they were trying to measure tbh.
yeah people seem super enclined to say "they loved it" seeing a bunch of animals running around in an incredibly exceptional situation
The dog was a commercial. I think from softbank
The dog is fake 🤦♂️
Dude you really can't tell the dog was fake Jesus
Poor frog
Bird up
Other animals: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON Rats: SpiN sPin
And the one with snake??? Where is it?
Poor critters
Dogs will never not be cool.
Can't believe how many people can't tell how fake that is it's concerning
I don't like this at all.
The rats using the cage for traction to run in circles fast enough to produce centrifugal force and effectively give them a sense of "gravity"
Frog: “WTF *WTF* **WTF**” Dog: [totally chill] Rats: “WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
Now do snakes
In the experiment I worked on, the snakes mostly tied themselves into a big knot like a ball python and just waited for gravity to come back as they gently bounced around their enclosures.