Is there a real flying elephant?

Elephants can't fly. Unless, of course, the elephant in question is Dumbo. In the cartoon and the new, computer-enhanced live version of the tale, a baby elephant is born with enormous ears — even for an elephant. Those ears help him fly and soar to stardom in the circus.
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Can elephants jump?

Despite what you may have seen in your Saturday morning cartoons, elephants can't jump, according to a video by Smithsonian. And there's one simple reason: They don't have to. Most jumpy animals—your kangaroos, monkeys, and frogs—do it primarily to get away from predators.
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Can Eagle carry an elephant?

Luckily, Kaplan worked out the exact physics, which he calls “a chore.” Given that eagles can lift half their body weight, a rukh would need to be 2,000 pounds to lift a 1,000-pound elephant, he claims.
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Are ants stronger than elephants?

With a body measuring between 0.75 and 52 millimeters, ants are well known with their ability of working together but agility, strength and endurance is what draws attention from different people with different knowledge.
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What bird can carry a human?

Eagles with the greatest weight-carrying capacity are the bald eagle, the Philippine eagle, the harpy eagle, and the crowned eagle.
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What is the animal that never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What animal Cannot fart?

Share All sharing options for: Farts: which animals do, which don't, and why. Here's a mind-boggling fact: Almost all mammals fart, yet the sloth does not.
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Can elephants cry?

While this may look superficially like emotional "crying", it occurs simply because elephants have lost the normal mammalian structures that drain excess moisture away from their eyes; without a true lacrimal structure, elephants are physically unable to produce emotional tears.
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Did Dumbo really exist?

It is believed that the story of Dumbo is loosely based on the real life elephant Jumbo, a male African Bush elephant born in Sudan in 1860. After his mother was killed by poachers he was captured and sold to Lorenzo Casanova, an Italian animal dealer and explorer.
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Can Dumbo fly in real life?

For a 600-pound elephant to glide, he'd need a wing load of 6.8 lb./ft^2. In order for that to happen, his wingspan (or earspan) would need to be close to 19 feet, or approximately 9 feet for each wing. This is about twice the actual dimension of Dumbo's ears.
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Is Dumbo still alive?

The 'Most Famous Elephant on Earth' was dead at the age of 24. Everyone knows the story of Disney's Dumbo, the 1941 animated classic about a baby elephant with giant ears forced to perform in a circus after being separated from his mother.
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Can a human fly?

Humans are not physically designed to fly. We cannot create enough lift to overcome the force of gravity (or our weight). It's not only wings that allow birds to fly. Their light frame and hollow bones make it easier to counteract gravity.
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Can an adult fly a Dumbo?

You know, lots of people with big ears are famous!

They were also the thing that made him special. Armed with a magical feather (so far as he knew), Dumbo was able to use his ears to take flight.
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Which animal do not drink water?

The kangaroo rat's kidneys are so efficient that it never needs to drink water. It gets all of its liquid from the plants, roots, and seeds it eats.
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What animal has the loudest fart?

Well, they say that among schoolchildren really and this may be correct in the case of hippos. The thunderous hippo fart has been proven to have permanent effects on the Earth's atmosphere.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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Which animal do not sleep at all?

Bullfrogs… No rest for the Bullfrog. The bullfrog was chosen as an animal that doesn't sleep because when tested for responsiveness by being shocked, it had the same reaction whether awake or resting.
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Which animal blood is blue in color?

Snails, spiders and octopi have something in common- they all have blue blood! We're not talking in the sense of royalty, these creatures literally have blue blood. So why is their blood blue and ours red? One of the purposes of blood is to carry oxygen around the body.
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Can an eagle pick up a human baby?

Needless to say, many people believed it was real and still believe it. Even though this sensational video is a hoax, the real question is whether this could actually happen. While it's hard to ever say something could never happen, stories of eagles carrying off small children are largely myths.
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What is the deadliest flying bird?

6 of the World's Most Dangerous Birds
  • Cassowary (Casuarius) southern cassowary. ...
  • Ostrich (Struthio camelus) ostrich © Xavier Marchant/Fotolia. ...
  • Emu (Dromaius [or Dromiceius] novaehollandiae) emu with chicks. ...
  • Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) lammergeier. ...
  • Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) ...
  • Barred Owl (Strix varia)
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