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

From: firstjois (firstjoisyike_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:50:43 -0500

Rich Travsky wrote:
>> 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...

>From 0-6 mos? They are land-lubbers? 

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