Studies on airborne rhinos, hissing cats get Ig Nobels prize

Annual honour for unusual accomplishments in science and the humanities aims to make people laugh and then think.

It is safer to transport rhinoceros in the air when they are upside down, and you can determine a country’s level of corruption by measuring the obesity levels of its politicians, according to scientific studies that have won Ig Nobel prizes. A study about the modes of cat and human communication, including purring, meowing and hissing was also cited in the Biology category, which is among some of the findings given awards online on Thursday night. An annual honour for unusual accomplishments in science and the humanities, the Ig Nobles professed aim is to make people laugh and then think.