Elephant Walk

Elephants don't do jumping jacks or skip, but they can run fast and walk across a continent. Elephant legs are designed to help them migrate long distances and carry up to 5 tons. Watching an elephant walk one can imagine they are gliding. They distribute weight differently from us with each step. Research recently confirmed that they step more lightly than us (relatively speaking in terms of percent of body weight). To do the research the elephants had to be video taped using motion capture, and each step had to be measured using a very large scale. The attached article should have a photograph of the set-up.

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