How do newton's laws of motion apply to the motion of an animal, such as a cat that is running?

According to newton's first law of motion a stationary or moving object will be in that state forever until an external force is exerted

An object in motion will still be in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest unless being acted on by an unbalanced force

Iread this book last year so take this with a grain of salt.gene jumps from the tree to compete with finny due to the fact that gene is always trying to do better than finny. he is put under the grasp of peer pressure due to finny almost forcing him to do this. ever since he first jumped finny kept pressuring him to jump since he thought gene enjoyed jumping.rather than uses this answer you should probably just reread chapters 3-4