How to climb a tree: Lizards accelerate faster, but pause more, when escaping on vertical surfaces

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-90

  Higham, Timothy E ^a   Korchari, Paul ^a   Mcbrayer, Lance D ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermittent; Locomotion; Performance; Running; Sceloporus; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; TRACKWAY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WALKING;

SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS WOODI; SQUAMATA; UROSAURUS;

EID: 78650061556     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01564.x     Document Type: Article

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