@ooli to [email protected] • 4 days agoHippos can launch themselves airborne for split seconds at a time, surprising scientistswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square6arrow-up155arrow-down11
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minus-square@jaybonelink12•edit-23 days agoIs this also called jumping? Many mammals and other animals are capable of this. Edit: in fact I’m having a difficult time thinking of animals that can’t do this. Maybe turtles and worms? Shellfish, cephalopods?
minus-square@jaybonelink1•3 days agoI kind of thought elephants might be able to do little jumps. Maybe not though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•3 days agoNope! They never needed to so they didn’t evolve the ability. Also, they have so much mass that accelerating that mass quick enough to jump would probably injure them, the landing as well. Newton’s a bitch
Is this also called jumping?
Many mammals and other animals are capable of this.
Edit: in fact I’m having a difficult time thinking of animals that can’t do this. Maybe turtles and worms? Shellfish, cephalopods?
Elephants, probably rhinos, tortoises
I kind of thought elephants might be able to do little jumps. Maybe not though.
Nope! They never needed to so they didn’t evolve the ability. Also, they have so much mass that accelerating that mass quick enough to jump would probably injure them, the landing as well. Newton’s a bitch