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  2. Study of animal locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Legged locomotion is the dominant form of terrestrial locomotion, the movement on land. The motion of limbs is quantified by the kinematics of the limb itself (intralimb kinematics) and the coordination between limbs (interlimb kinematics). [1] [2] Figure 1. Classifying stance and swing transitions of the front right (red) and left (blue) legs ...

  3. Arachnid locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Arachnid locomotion is the various means by which arachnids walk, run, or jump; they make use of more than muscle contraction, employing additional methods like hydraulic compression. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Another adaptation seen especially in larger arachnid variants is inclusion of elastic connective tissues .

  4. Terrestrial locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Some animals may use different postures in different circumstances, depending on the posture's mechanical advantages. There is no detectable difference in energetic cost between stances. The "sprawling" posture is the most primitive, and is the original limb posture from which the others evolved.

  5. Anatomical terms of motion - Wikipedia

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    The different parts of the object do not move the same distance. Examples include a movement of the knee, where the lower leg changes angle compared to the femur, or movements of the ankle. [2] The study of movement in the human body is known as kinesiology. [4]

  6. Bipedalism - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the change in shoulder stability, changing locomotion would have increased the demand for shoulder mobility, which would have propelled the evolution of bipedalism forward. [44] The different hypotheses are not necessarily mutually exclusive and a number of selective forces may have acted together to lead to human bipedalism.

  7. Gait - Wikipedia

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    The movement of each limb was partitioned into a stance phase, where the foot was in contact with the ground, and a swing phase, where the foot was lifted and moved forwards. [1] [2] Each limb must complete a cycle in the same length of time, otherwise one limb's relationship to the others can change with time, and a steady pattern cannot occur.

  8. Interlimb coordination - Wikipedia

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    Different phases of the oscillators are responsible to demonstrate the movements between the limbs. A specific oscillator with respect to the specific muscle from a specific limb could show the progression and development of that limb through its movement, for instance, the progression and development of the step cycle of the left limb in ...

  9. Animal Locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Horse galloping The Horse in Motion, 24-camera rig with tripwires GIF animation of Plate 626 Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare Annie G. [1]. Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements is a series of scientific photographs by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1884 and 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania, to study motion in animals (including humans).