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Author Biewener, A. A. (Andrew A.), author.

Title Animal locomotion / Andrew A. Biewener, Sheila N. Patek
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : illustrations
Contents Physical and biological properties and principles: related to animal locomotion -- Muscles and skeletons: the building blocks of animal movement -- Energetics of locomotion -- Movement on land -- Movement in water -- Movement in air -- Jumping, climbing, and suspensory locomotion -- Neuromuscular control of movement -- Evolution of locomotion
Summary This book examines how animals move, comparing running, swimming, and flying. It also reviews the common principles of design and movement that animals have evolved to move through very different physical environments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Animal locomotion.
Animals -- Physiological aspects
Locomotion.
Locomotion
Movement
Animals
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
Animal locomotion
Physiology
Form Electronic book
Author Patek, Sheila N., 1972- author.
ISBN 9780191060854
0191060852
9780191803031
0191803030