Fat whores rejoice! Hippos can become airborne for "substantial periods of time"
Once the move fast enough. What's your excuse?
[QUOTE]"We were pleasantly surprised to see how hippos get airborne when they move quickly - it's really impressive!"
[QUOTE]The mammals, which weigh up to 8,000Ibs, can often leave the ground when moving fast, which differs to other animals like rhinos and elephants.
[QUOTE]Research by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) found that the animals can be up in the air for up to 0.3 seconds at a time when moving fast.
[QUOTE]The findings found that unlike other land animals such as elephants, horses and rhinos, hippos exclusively trot when moving, pushing the limits of what giant land animals can do, the RVC said.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 59 | July 15, 2024 6:16 AM
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[quote]The findings found that unlike other land animals such as elephants, horses and rhinos, hippos exclusively trot when moving
In other words, they literally cannot but trot when moving. Which asks a lot more of muscles than regular movement. And when they speed up, they get airborne. Amazing configuration, for that weight.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 7, 2024 2:04 PM
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The author of this article clearly had never seen a fight at a dyke bar. I’ve seen womyn who looked like Grimace move with a speed that would take your breath away.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 7, 2024 2:12 PM
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Chrissy Metz is never going to have to buy airline tickets again!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 7, 2024 2:45 PM
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I *knew* they were trotters...
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 7, 2024 6:28 PM
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Airborne hippopotamuses really aren't dollface when you think of a charging, right?
Or swimming...
[QUOTE]“I remember just lying at the bottom of the river, looking up and I’m waist-deep inside the hippo’s mouth,” Paul said.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | July 7, 2024 6:28 PM
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God I hope one never craps on my shirt whilst airborne above me.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 7, 2024 6:42 PM
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I do miss the way Re would sniff the chicken and appear with a whoosh of wind.
Rather foul-fucking wind it was, too.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 7, 2024 7:29 PM
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There's hope for me to become one of the jet set then! Yay LOL! 😺😁🤨🤦♀️😥
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 7, 2024 7:38 PM
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In this new study, Hutchinson and Pringle wondered how such a heavy creature could reach such speeds, noting that little research has been done on the hippo gait because they are so dangerous to be around.
They also found that when they run at top speed, they lift all four of their feet off the ground at the same time at certain points in their gait—this happens 15% of the time while running. Each occurrence lasted for approximately 0.3 seconds. Further study showed that the hippos run using a trotting type gait rather than a gallop, which is the way rhinos run.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 13 | July 7, 2024 11:00 PM
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I'm off to buy my personal jetpack!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 7, 2024 11:28 PM
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They're the deadliest large land mammal, killing about 500 people per year.
Bears? Hmmph.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 15 | July 7, 2024 11:46 PM
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There's a MAGA joke in this somewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 8, 2024 12:34 AM
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They have the best PR besides rhinos and monitor lizards.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 8, 2024 5:42 AM
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Fractions of a second. I was hoping for several minutes of air time
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 8, 2024 6:33 AM
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Nice action shot with all four feet off the ground.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 22 | July 8, 2024 6:34 AM
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It's no different than horses, deer, and many other large 4 footed animals that have the capacity to run or gallop at a fast pace. To get all 4 feet off the ground at once they have to be moving at a very fast pace.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 8, 2024 9:59 AM
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It's called hippovitation. Hippovitation as in levitation which goes without saying but also as cavitation because this hippo state creates so much turbulence around their heavy frame that the air around the hippo tends to ionize and gets luminescent. It has been said that many UFO sightings might have just been flying hippos and the luminescent orbs that come with them. QAnon has also said that John Kennedy Jr. would come back aboard a flying hippo.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 8, 2024 10:47 AM
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What’s new about fat whores getting their legs up in the air?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 8, 2024 10:54 AM
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[quote] Hippos can become airborne for "substantial periods
If The Boys had seen this article early enough, oh what might have been
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | July 8, 2024 11:29 AM
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r10 Strange looking hippo
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 8, 2024 11:37 AM
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This is something we all knew.
Henrietta Hippo could jump like a motherfucker.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 8, 2024 11:09 PM
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Mi Nena. si? As the cunts retract.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 9, 2024 12:19 AM
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I’m pretty sure Henrietta danced ballet or classical roller skating.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | July 9, 2024 12:44 AM
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Old news. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole proved this back in the 90s.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | July 9, 2024 12:51 AM
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Hippos are not even fat. They’re round but that’s mostly muscle. The slenderest humans have more body fat than a hippo.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 9, 2024 12:53 AM
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The author is probably related to the scientist who did not understand the physics laws of buoyancy as explained to Trump and sinking batteries.
Hippos may be able to attain a high HORIZONTAL velocity, relative to its size. But those stubby legs cannot lift the carcass high enough to sustain a lengthy VERTICAL FALL at 9.8 m/s.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 9, 2024 12:54 AM
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That story at r7 is wild! Head first in a hippo’s mouth?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 9, 2024 12:54 AM
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There’s hope!
I’ve always wanted to fly.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 9, 2024 2:24 AM
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[QUOTE]But those stubby legs cannot lift the carcass high enough to sustain a lengthy VERTICAL FALL at 9.8 m/s.
Why are you suggesting 9.8 meters/per seconds squared ever stopped Trump?
And that "carcass" explanation says you slept through your "Physics for Dummies" course your father paid for that "stupid summer" when John Jr. may have frolicking with you. Unfettered, unimpressed, unimpounded like Fetterman nowadays. Used and used.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 9, 2024 2:52 AM
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Dang and done said the uncrippled idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 9, 2024 9:45 PM
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So "when pigs fly" was invented by hippos?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 9, 2024 10:51 PM
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If she were thinner at r41, she’d be a pretty good dancer.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 9, 2024 11:29 PM
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"And that "carcass" explanation says you slept through your "Physics for Dummies" course your father paid for that "stupid summer" when John Jr. may have frolicking with you. Unfettered, unimpressed, unimpounded like Fetterman nowadays."
You are the reason Trump should have picked the shark.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 9, 2024 11:46 PM
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[Quote] They're the deadliest large land mammal, killing about 500 people per year.
In fact, the second deadliest large animal, period. Only crocodiles kill more people every year. (Crocs do it for food, hippos do it for territoriality.)
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 9, 2024 11:56 PM
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I don’t want any of you to give up hope. ✈️
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 10, 2024 12:02 AM
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R43 blind as well as elephantine.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 10, 2024 12:04 AM
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They really are weird as hell. A ball of muscle with a giant mouth.
What for? Why does it exist? Why must it fly? Why did it eat that guy? I think the guy was bothering it.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 10, 2024 1:35 AM
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Like a roided up middle-aged bottom, R49.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 12, 2024 7:08 PM
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R43 If pigs could fly, they wouldn't bounce around on their assholes all day.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 13, 2024 5:49 AM
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What purpose do they serve???
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 13, 2024 6:12 AM
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Just want to chime in here because it's sounding like we should go out and kill them.
Stop the "purpose they serve" bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 13, 2024 6:17 AM
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R54 and what purpose do you serve?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 13, 2024 10:04 AM
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Have you tried them with tomatoes and prunes?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 13, 2024 7:04 PM
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R55 I would like to staple your hands over your mouth so you can never speak or post again. JFC people like you are the decline of Western Civilization.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 15, 2024 6:16 AM
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