Africa: Hippos Don’t Fly – but the Massive Animals Can Get Airborne

[The Conversation Africa] In 1872 Leland Stanford, the founder of California’s Stanford University, hired an eccentric inventor named Eadweard Muybridge to help resolve a supposed (but undocumented) bet: did a trotting horse’s feet leave the ground with all four feet or not? 

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