Terrestrial locomotion in the white stork (Ciconia ciconia): Spatio-temporal gait characteristics

Animal Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 281-292

  van Coppenolle, Isabel ^a   Aerts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Birds gait; Locomotion; Stork; Walking

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIDEOGRAPHY; WADER; WALKING;

AVES; CICONIA; CICONIA CICONIA; CICONIIFORMES;

EID: 12844255823     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1570756042484683     Document Type: Article

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