Comment on Hippos can launch themselves airborne for split seconds at a time, surprising scientists

• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I kind of thought elephants might be able to do little jumps. Maybe not though.

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  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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