Spatio-temporal gait characteristics of the hind-limb cycles during voluntary bipedal and quadrupedal walking in bonobos (Pan paniscus)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 503-517

  Aerts, Peter ^a   Van Damme, Raoul ^a   Van Elsacker, Linda ^b   Duchene, Vicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bipedal quadrupedal walking; Gait variables; Primate locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHIMPANZEE; GAIT; HINDLIMB; HOMINID; LEG LENGTH; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; GAIT; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; POSTURE; WALKING;

EID: 0034029258     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(200004)111:4<503::AID-AJPA6>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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