Don't break a leg: Running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy on uneven terrain

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3786-3796

  Birn Jeffery, Aleksandra V ^a,c   Hubicki, Christian M ^b   Blum, Yvonne ^a   Renjewski, Daniel ^b   Hurst, Jonathan W ^b   Daley, Monica A ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bipedal running; Gait stability; Ground birds; Injury avoidance; Trajectory optimization

Indexed keywords

AVES; PHASIANIDAE; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAIT; LEG; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; GAIT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84925866634     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: 14779145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.102640     Document Type: Article

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