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Originally Posted by Landonfan
Idk if you're joking or not. If you're trying to tell me that breaching = jumping, then I'm gonna have to disagree unless you can prove to me that it's scientifically classified as jumping.
:: sigh :::
Okay.
This from Enchanted Learning's Whale Glossary-
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Breaching: Many whales are very acrobatic, even breaching (jumping) high out of the water and then slapping the water as they come back down.
Really, if you can't accept the learning of the enchanted, I feel for you. They're
enchanted, for Pete's sake..
Or this Wikipedia
page, with the definition provided by cetacean researcher and whale groupie Hal Whitehead, in which he defines a breach as a "leap". In fact, virtually everything I checked defined a "breach" as a jump or a leap.
As to a "scientific classification" of jumping, there is none; different species do it in different ways. Frogs and horses both jump, but are not physiologically identical in doing so. But even if you accept the rigorous definition that demands the jumper has to be at some point 100% airborne after propelling oneself up, using one's own power, then whales can, indeed, jump.
Now, as to whether
other mammals can or cannot jump: there is no real consensus. Even the guy at
AllExperts, who seems to have zoological degrees spewing out of his wazoo, cannot give a definite answer, although he seems to doubt the jumping abilities of sloths and bats. Also unable to jump, at least according to Wesley Snipes? White men. This in spite of the House of Pain imploring us to do so.