At what point do small bugs take damage from falling?

Question

I released a spider today and after launching it from about six feet up, which was about 72 times its height, I started to wonder about this.

EDIT: Took out a typo. I didn’t think anybody would care or notice but you know, Reddit.

In: Biology

Answer 1

If you dropped a squirrel, a person, and an elephant of the Empire State Building, the squirrel would be fine, the person would shatter every bone in their body and die, and the elephant would explode. Bigger things hit the ground harder, smaller things hit the ground lighter.