Hippos don’t fly - but the massive animals can get airborne
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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 managed to get blurry snapshots of an airborne horse in mid-trot an example of h .