Are fast-moving elephants really running?

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6931, 2003, Pages 493-494

  Hutchinson, John R ^a   Famini, Dan ^b   Lair, Richard ^c   Kram, Rodger ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Thai Elephant Conservation Centre   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; ELEPHANT; GAIT; GRAVITY; HIP; KITCHEN; LEG; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SHOULDER; STANDING; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THAILAND; TIME; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELEPHANTS; GAIT; KINETICS; RUNNING; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING;

EID: 0037417390     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/422493a     Document Type: Article

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