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Hippos can launch themselves airborne for split seconds at a time, surprising scientists (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Elephants, probably rhinos, tortoises

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Just another reason to make them even more scary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

they fly now!