Cite required Re: It takes 3 years for a human child to learn to run, only 3 minutes to swim (Re: endurance running?

From: Rich Travsky (traRvEsky_at_hotmMOVEail.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:04:34 -0700

Marc Verhaegen wrote:
>
> "Andrew Glasgow" <amg39@cornell.edu> wrote in message
> news:1103563309.816695.284810@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > > > It takes 3 years for a human child to learn to run, only 3 minutes
> to swim... :-D
>
> > > > So you feel that you can take a 3-minute old infant and throw him in a
> pool and he'll be swimming around without issues? Go ahead and try it, but
> make sure to use your own offspring...
>
> > > It takes about 20 minutes IIRC for a baby zebra to run along with its
> mother (of course, the zebra is a savanna mammal :-)), just as it takes 3
> minutes (or less) for a human baby to swim with his mother. Okidoki, my boy?
> Never seen illustrations of swimming babies?? Sigh.
>
> > 20 minutes after birth, you mean? Probably true, because equiids are very
> precocial at birth.
>
> Equid (please try to spell correctly) newborns can run, but still need their
> mothers. Human newborns can swim, but still need their mothers.
>
> > Human babies, on the other hand, are fairly altricial.
>
> Don't be ridiculous: again: human babies are altricial *on land*. They're
> precocial in water. Never seen illustrations of swimming babies?? Inform a
> bit before talking. Perhaps you can start with J.Johnson & M.Odent "Water
> babies".

 http://www.infantswim.com/
 ...
 Babies as young as 6 months old can save themselves from a fall into
 the water. Infants 6-12 months old are taught to rotate from a face-down
 position in the water to a backfloat to rest and breathe. It takes about
 3 weeks to learn these skills when taught by a certified ISR instructor.

With *training*, 3 weeks...

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