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Professor John R. Hutchinson

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Our new paper in PeerJ: we show with basic video footage that hippos essentially only trot even at near-maximal speeds, and at those speeds they do get airborne with all four feet. Which, to our knowledge, is new to science -- and cool!
peerj.com/articles/176...
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WHAAAAAAT

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Professor John R. Hutchinson's avatar Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
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Cool example of repeatedly airborne hippo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhMh...

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