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Scaling of inertial delays in terrestrial mammals

As part of its response to a perturbation, an animal often needs to reposition its body. Inertia acts to oppose the corrective motion, delaying the completion of the movement—we refer to this elapsed time as inertial delay. As animal size increases, muscle moment arms also increase, but muscles are...

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Autores principales: Mohamed Thangal, Sayed Naseel, Donelan, J. Maxwell
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6999919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32017765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217188