How can ants/bugs fall like 20 times their own body height (dropping from a fence f.e.) and just walk away?

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A human falling down from three times their own height (six metres or so) would be horribly injured, while bugs seem to just walk on. How does this work? Shouldn’t they be falling at a similar speed, due to gravity?

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I would like to add to all the comments about air resistance and terminal velocity, that the building bricks of biological structure has a similar material strength, but need to support a negligible weight ratio.

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