Are high speed elephants running or walking?

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Are high speed elephants running or walking?

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Elephants can move fast, but can they ever be said to be truly "running"? Norman Heglund and colleagues from the Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have measured the colossal forces generated by high-speed elephants and found that the animals do conserve energy like runners by recycling it like a pogo stick, however, they do not bounce like runners. What is more they are three times more economical than human runners.

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