ooli@lemmy.world to Biology@mander.xyz · 2 months agoHippos can launch themselves airborne for split seconds at a time, surprising scientistswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down11
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minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-22 months 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-squarepixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months agoElephants, probably rhinos, tortoises
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI kind of thought elephants might be able to do little jumps. Maybe not though.
minus-squarepixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months 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