• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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?

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          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