A functional analysis of how frogs jump out of water

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 413-420

  Nauwelaerts, Sandra ^a   Scholliers, Jan ^a   Aerts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anura; Locomotion; Movement analysis; Physical model

Indexed keywords

FROG; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

ANURA; EUPHLYCTIS CYANOPHLYCTIS; EUPHLYCTIS HEXADACTYLUS; RANA ESCULENTA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 8744315603     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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