Vertical jumping performance of bonobo (Pan paniscus) suggests superior muscle properties

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1598, 2006, Pages 2177-2184

  Scholz, Melanie N ^a   D'Août, Kristiaan ^b   Bobbert, Maarten F ^a   Aerts, Peter ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Ground reaction force; Inverse dynamics; Kinematics; Specific work

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; PRIMATE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORK CAPACITY;

ANIMALIA; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 33748251263     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3568     Document Type: Article

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