Caracal Jump Hunting Lab: Projectile Interception (2D)

This 2D companion strips the caracal's signature vertical leap down to the kinematics that make it work: a launch-speed-and-angle slider pair drives a real projectile arc (x(t), y(t) from v0 and θ, with the textbook max-height and apex-time formulas shown live), while a bird flies its own independent horizontal line at an adjustable altitude and speed. Interception is decided the way the hunt actually happens — not by touching the whole arc, but by testing whether the caracal's paw-reach disc overlaps the bird's position in a short timing window centred on the apex, exactly where a caracal's real strike lands.