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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 14 days
Excellent explanation of our hippo research in @guardianscience : www.theguardian.com/world/articl... Including the torment of frame by frame video analysis. If you know, you know.
Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airbornewww.theguardian.com Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when at full pelt
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Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇 @amarotuninetti.bsky.social · 14 days
incredible 🤩
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Fabio A. Machado @fmachado.bsky.social · 14 days
well, that would explain Madagascar hippo dispersal :P
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 14 days
Glad to see Flamingo Land getting in the mix!
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tower[dan] @towerdan.bsky.social · 14 days
Flying? That's just running. Which I guess means that elephants can only speed walk.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 14 days
Yeah I don't write the headlines. With elephants, there's more nuance. They don't get airborne but they do switch physics from stiff-legged vaulting (walking) to springy-legged bouncing (running), as I showed in prior work.