hippo locomotion

Unlike the birds that often share their space, hippos can’t fly. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket       By John R. Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College     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? Muybridge was a skilled photographer and […]