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Primarch-XVI t1_jdt79ht wrote

Reply to comment by LastLapPodcast in Can elephants canter or gallop? by [deleted]

Okay, I was not aware that elephants had such limited range of motion in their ankles.

But an ankle is still an ankle, no matter how much it can do. Saying that elephants don’t have ankles is just spreading misinformation.

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LastLapPodcast t1_jdtcr6q wrote

It's not misinformation. A bats wing and a whales flippers contain all the bones and joints in a hand but you don't say that those animals have hands. The foot to leg joint in elephants does not function the same as the ankle joint does in other four legged animals due to the way the heel structure is prevented from touching the ground. Yes, there is a joint there and yes it contains the same bones you find in feet but it doesn't do what those same bones do for other animals.

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