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High-speed hippos can get airborne, says new study
Hippos can get airborne when moving at high speeds over land ... and then the two other diagonal limbs – no matter what speed they are moving at, whereas other mammals such as horses switch ...
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Hippos can actually become airborne when they run at full speed
They're hefty, they're dangerous, and they wallow in water every chance they get. But did you know that hippos can ...
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Trotting hippos can become airborne, scientists say
“We’re thrilled to provide the first study purely focused on revealing how hippos walk and run. “We were pleasantly surprised to see how hippos get airborne ... speed, much like a horse ...
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Trotting hippos can 'fly,' but only in 0.3-second bursts, study finds
"And what's neat about that is that they do that throughout their whole speed range, as far as we can ... hippos prefer to trot even at high speeds of 15.5 mph (25 km/h), while also going airborne ...
Colombian court orders Escobar's hippos to be hunted
A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo ...
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Trotting hippos can become airborne, scientists say
“We’re thrilled to provide the first study purely focused on revealing how hippos walk and run. “We were pleasantly surprised to see how hippos get airborne ... can use a standard quadrupedal walk, ...