When their thick fur gets matted down and heavy, it makes it hard for them to move around with those trademark catlike reflexes, so you can see why they try to avoid water altogether.
And as such, from a dramatic perspective, his movie doesn't bring us back to let us pretend we are once again standing on that precipice, like a sort of Schrodinger's cat in reverse, imagining we would have done differently.
Wolf Larsen strode aft from amidships, where he had been talking with the rescued men. The cat-like springiness in his tread was a little more pronounced than usual, and his eyes were bright and snappy.
It wasn't until they'd been in their new groups for five months, on average, that they spent as much time working as lookout as the other mongooses did.
The fur trade kept nutria in check for decades, but when the market for nutria collapsed in the late 1980s, the cat-sized animals multiplied like crazy.