Trot-gallop gait transitions in quadrupeds

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 835-842

  Vilensky, Joel A ^a   Njock Libii, Josue ^b   Moore, Ann M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cats; Dogs; Energetics; Kinematics; Locomotion; Mammals; Monkeys; Run

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; DOG; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; LOCOMOTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUNNING;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; CATS; DOGS; FORELIMB; GAIT; HAPLORHINI; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0025990725     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90026-K     Document Type: Review

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