{"id":1945,"date":"2010-12-26T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2010-12-23T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:39:16","slug":"charging-elephants-dont-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/charging-elephants-dont-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Charging elephants don&#8217;t run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1946\" title=\"elephants\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/elephants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/elephants.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/elephants-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/elephants-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Asian elephants can charge up to 20 km\/h, a quick pace for animals of their size. But despite appearances, they don&#8217;t technically run, say scientists from Belgium, Italy and Thailand. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The international team tracked the footfall patterns of 34 elephants to see how their centre of mass changed over the course of their stride. The conclusion: The animals trot with their forelegs and walk with their hind legs when moving at high speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Their half-walk, half-trot is economical \u2014 costing approximately one third of the energy expended by humans, relative to size \u2014 because their centre of mass bounces less than other animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian elephants can charge up to 20 km\/h, a quick pace for animals of their size. But despite appearances, they don&#8217;t technically run, say scientists from Belgium, Italy and Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,6,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-in-the-mag","category-nature","category-science","category-science-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}