People over on Reddit are once again (see also: why we can't power trucks with a big magnet ) asking the big questions: is it more energy efficient to walk around on giant stilts? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

In a post to the "they did the math" subreddit, one Redditor asked the question , after seeing a video of members of the Banna tribe in Ethiopia walking around on long wooden stilts, a traditional method of avoiding animal attack whilst herding cattle. Though that is likely the reason that they first started walking on stilts, today it is done for cultural reasons.

"Stilts-walking is a long-standing cultural tradition among community members," Further Africa explains. "Unmarried young men are the carriers

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