Dynamic pressure patterns in the hands of olive baboons (papio anubis) during terrestrial locomotion: Implications for cercopithecoid primate hand morphology

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 710-718

  Patel, Biren A ^a   Wunderlich, Roshna E ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digitigrade; Force; Metacarpal; Palmigrade; Phalanx; Pressure; Terrestrial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HAND BONE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALMAR DERMATOGLYPHICS; PRESSURE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WALKING;

ANIMALS; HAND; LOCOMOTION; PAPIO ANUBIS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PRESSURE;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77950869253     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21128     Document Type: Article

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