TIL that horses can actually swim really well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WThHDbfL8yU

I was thinking about it last night - almost all mammals can swim and even if never exposed to deep water when they are the will instinctually just know how to swim.

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Apparently it's unknown if giraffes can swim.

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Surely there's some scientist willing to test that out.

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Scientists would gouge the horses eyes out and cut off its nuts first, though. Just to make the research thorough.

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The reason Isabella Loretta Janke was acting out is because she was trapping herself into a bleak future studying computers when she should have gone into biology researh. She could be on the path to get grants to do what she loves :marseydepressed:

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Who is this Janke you're referring to? My pfp is a completely irrelevant beautiful young woman who'd never do nobody wrong. :marseyglow: I sure hope she gets to be a scientist one day though. Think of how mankind could benefit. Like that Unit 731 I hear so much about.

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We can stretch out a horses neck and see if that swims first.

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After 1000 years of being shipped across the Mediteranian to Rome and a tonne of them getting accidentally dumped in the sea I'm sure someone had to have noted if they swam or not.

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Good point. Sadly such an important manuscript has not survived the fires of time.

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Giraffes are mammals and just stretched out horses. Iโ€™m reading that even elephants can swim.


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My concern is that they'd flip over. I think they have the instincts to be able to do it, but idk about the bodyplan.

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Theyโ€™d be like a cool animal submarine with their head poking above the surface like a periscope? Iโ€™m surprised the navy hasnโ€™t attempted to weaponize giraffes.


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Bruh they are amazing swimmers wtf

https://qz.com/india/749169/the-incredible-life-of-indias-iconic-swimming-elephant/

They can swim in the open ocean. Not just rivers.

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Ricky Gervais does a bit about elephants swimming in the ocean.


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