Do highly trained monkeys walk like humans? A kinematic study of bipedal locomotion in bipedally trained Japanese macaques

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 739-750

  Hirasaki, Eishi ^a   Ogihara, Naomichi ^b   Hamada, Yuzuru ^b   Kumakura, Hiroo ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masato ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Energy cost; Hindlimb joints; Inverted pendulum; Macaca fuscata

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; PRIMATE;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 3042841706     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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