I recently saw a video of an elephant being born and it immediately got up and attempted to walk. It was fairly successful too.
In: Biology
The answer to this kind of question is always the same.
The animals of that species that were not born able to walk immediately, simply died or were killed by predators or some other thing in the environment. This prevented them from passing on whatever genes determine that you would not be able to walk at birth, and so no more animals with those genes had the chance to be born.
that’s the definition of natural selection.
it’s also the answer to these questions:
“why are some cows brown and some black”
“why do flamingos have long legs that bend backwards”
etc.
the answer is always “because the ones that weren’t like that did not survive so they did not pass on their genes, and only the ones that are like that did survive and did pass their genes to the next generation”
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