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Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

To escape danger or catch prey, running vertebrates rely on dynamic gaits with minimal ground contact. By contrast, most insects use a tripod gait that maintains at least three legs on the ground at any given time. One prevailing hypothesis for this difference in fast locomotor strategies is that tr...

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Autores principales: Ramdya, Pavan, Thandiackal, Robin, Cherney, Raphael, Asselborn, Thibault, Benton, Richard, Ijspeert, Auke Jan, Floreano, Dario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28211509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14494