Is it true that elephants are the only animals that can't jump?
472788
actually that is a widely believed myth, they are able to jump. as for animals that can't jump, there are many: worms, sloths, turtles....
953724
What about an elephant?
988415
yeah, but a cat didn't turn into dog did it? I've never seen a half frog half half elephant in my local pub, that suddenly turned into a monkey.
106622
Land animals can walk on land and breath oxygen. With the exseption of dolphins and whales the others cant breath oxengen.
175992
Rabbits can't climb but they are very good swimmers. One jumped in my pool one time so I know.
54858
I think it is the bear. Most of the other animals do not attack unless they are hungry or provoked. But the bear has the unique distinction of attacking without any kind of provocation - just for the fun of it!
1057956
Mega fauna, like Woolly Mammoths and Saber tooth Tigers, have no chance of ever re evolving, but there are still giant mammals, on the planet earth. Elephants, giraffes, muskox, lions, tigers and the largest animal ever to inhabit our planet, the blue whale, are still very much around, at least for the time being. It would be fantastic if some of the recently extinct, mega fauna, like the woolly  mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the giant cave bear, the giant irish elk and the giant three toed land sloth were still roaming parts of our plant. Could you imagine a saber tooth tiger roaming around the hills surrounding Los Angeles, now that would be cool. Unfortunately the recently extinct species, that have been gone for 12,000 years, have little scientific chance, of ever being reintroduced, with today's scientific technology.  The future is wide open however, and the technology might soon exist to reanimate, many of these incredible species, how great would that be. I would love to see a 8,000 pound, 12 foot tall sloth. I only wish the future would hurry up and get here. The expectation and excitement of such developments, are wildly frustrating.\nGreat Question
828421
Animals are supported by a skeleton, made of bone.  Plants don't have skeletons, they use a cell wall to give them support.  Such walls wound make movement impractical.
693671
No. Animals have muscles. Plants do not.
600843
most amphibians have legs so they can walk on land. there arent usually amphibians that dont have legs...
1005230
The flying that they do in those movies is an exaggeration of the truth.  There is a type of training that used to be done called "light-body" training, that starts when you're very young, like 3-4 years old.  There are many things they do, but one of the main things they focused on was keeping the spinal column soft.\n\nMost land mammals can't jump out of the water, like fish do, mostly because the spine has become hard/rigid.  At the same time some snakes can strike more than half they body length, because of their flexible body and a firm base.\n\nWhen people with this training would jump, they would "spring" with their legs and their spine giving them 2-3 times the height and 3-4 times the distance of the people without the training, that could only jump with their legs.\n\nEven doing this, couldn't make you "fly".  But, not unlike some monkeys and flying squirrels, if you simply bound, glide, and jump from point to point, through the woods/forest/jungle, going from object to object, it does give the appearance of "flying".  \n\nAnd YES, of course this could be done, very easily, through the city, running across roof tops, jumping an occasional alley way, and scaling larger buildings to "fly" from. \n\nBut, what goes up, most come down too.  Long story short, like Buzz Lightyear said "It's not flying, it's falling with style"
197971
Of course it can.  They regularly lie on the ground.\nHowever, what you might be thinking of, is the fact that a cow will climb a stairs but never go down one.
942427
Are you sure it's a pink elephant?\n\nHere's one (http://www.curiousmath.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11) that uses the same idea but the elephant's not pink.
828716
As far as I'm aware, there is no fable about the elephants and the moon.
1004015
Not exactly, some animals can't live in the wild because they are weak, ect., and if we set zoo animals free they would not be used to the wild. But some animals are abused and mis treated in the zoo. I.E. Elephants in Tucson Zoo. Great Question!
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Horses usually do not jump unless there is a need (a rider telling him, or something on the other side of the fence he wants).  In fact they usually attempt to run through fences, rather than jump over them.\n\nProperly trained and conditioned horses have the ability to jump great heights.\n\nHorses without riders are able to jump higher because of the reduced weight...however, you have to convince the horse that he wants to jump by himself.
615888
Pretty much anything that is smaller or slower than a lion. This does exclude rhinos, hippos, end elephants.