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

Cursorial ground birds are paragons of bipedal running that span a 500-fold mass range from quail to ostrich. Here we investigate the task-level control priorities of cursorial birds by analysing how they negotiate single-step obstacles that create a conflict between body stability (attenuating devi...

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Autores principales: Birn-Jeffery, Aleksandra V., Hubicki, Christian M., Blum, Yvonne, Renjewski, Daniel, Hurst, Jonathan W., Daley, Monica A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Company of Biologists 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4213177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25355848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.102640