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Biomechanics: Are Fast-Moving Elephants Really Running?, Nature
 









Excerpts: It is generally thought that elephants do not run1-5, but there is
confusion about how fast they can move across open terrain and what gait they
use at top speed. Here we use video analysis to show that Asian elephants
(Elephas maximus L.) can move at surprisingly high speeds of up to 6.8 m s-1 (25
km h-1) and that, although their gait might seem to be a walk even at this
speed, some features of their locomotion conform to definitions of running.
Source: Biomechanics: Are Fast-Moving Elephants Really Running?[
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v422/n6931/full/422493a_fs.html
], John R. Hutchinson, Dan Famini, Richard Lair, Rodger Kram, Nature 422, 493 -
494 (2003); doi:10.1038/422493a

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