Thursday, July 30, 2009

Elephants walk rather slowly most of the time

Or maybe it just seems like they’re moving slowly because they’re so big. Since their legs are much longer than a human’s, they have more range in the distance they can move with one step. Suppose they make the same angle with their leg as we do with ours. That would mean that with each step they take, they can travel much further than we can with one of our steps. This is because as you draw lines out from any angle, the further out you go, the further apart they get.



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