I am curious whether or not they can. Someone I work with says they are the only animal that can't jump.

I am pretty sure earthworms and snails can't jump, and these were all members or the animal kingdom when I was in school. It just doesn't make much of a point when you invoke non-jumping invertebrates.

I don't believe the story that's all over the internet about pygmies in Nairobi spearing them to elicit jumps at an annual festival.

I would like to know it they can do it, if anyone seriously knows the answer.

H. C.

I've heard they couldn't jump.

I don't see why they can't jump. They can't run on three legs. They can run like hell and climb like a goat.

I hear they can shuffle, skip, and do a mean two-step, if the country band is any good. (Sorry).

I don't know; but I'm definitely not going to be one of the guys holding the rope!!!

If you look at the bone / muscle structure it would appear that they could. I would imagine the fear of breaking legs would make them apprehensive. All that weight and a high center of gravity. I know that they can swim like all get out; and have a built in snorkle to boot. Saw a special where a herd was swimming across a big lake. They even had divers with underwater cameras.

Henry,

The Old Time ivory hunters wrote that they could not or would not jump.

The keepers at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park say they cannot jump, and they use some pretty small ditches to act as walls in the exhibits.

jim dodd

Can an elephant jump higher than a lamp post?

YES.

Lamp posts can't jump.

How do you kill a blue elephant?

With a blue elephant gun.

How do you kill a pink elephant?

Hold his trunk until he turns blue, then shoot him with the blue elephant gun.

Regards,

Terry

Elephants can't jump.
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[ 08-06-2003, 06:50: Message edited by: T.Carr ]

Only BULL elephants can jump...

take a 6' cheater bar, have jim, your assistant, hold has tail... take a running start, and swing like you are trying to put one over the fence at rigby field....

and I heard they can't shake their heads eaither....

but, if I stand in front of him, tapping said cheater bar in my hands, and ask him if he remembers me, i get a huge nod....

but when I ask him if he wants me to do it again.............

jeffe

Well, I guess that beats my story about an elephant wearing pajamas with an embroidered E,

BTW, The last time I checked, Pygmies weren't from Nairobi, either....


Rick.

They sure as hell can jump! I saw one right on top of another one once...and the one on top was smiling, so they must like to jump!

Nope!
They're like White Men, they can't jump!
Seriously though, they can't jump, no matter how fast they run they always have at least one foot on the ground.

Yes, they will jump up on a kitchen chair if there is a mouse in the kitchen!