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{{Short description|Wave-like animal movement method}} ...ugh a muddy area.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Snakes primarily rely on undulatory locomotion to move through a wide range of environments]] ...

...title=R. McNeill Alexander (1934–2016) Zoologist who pioneered comparative animal biomechanics|journal=Nature|volume=532|issue=7600|year=2016|pages=442|doi=1 ...echanisms. Subsequently, he concentrated on the mechanics of [[terrestrial locomotion]], notably walking and running in [[mammal]]s, particularly on [[gait]] sel ...

...Energy efficiency in transportation|energy efficiency]] of transporting an animal or vehicle from one place to another. As a [[dimensionless quantity]], it a ...zero.<ref name=Radh>{{cite journal|author1=Venkatraman Radhakrishnan|title=Locomotion: Dealing with friction|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien ...

...ttp://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/6/977.full.pdf+html Studies in animal locomotion VI. The propulsive powers of the dolphin"] ''J. Exp. Biol.'' '''13''': 192– ...

...ef>Gareett, W.N. Energetic Efficiency of Beef and Dairy Steers. Journal of Animal Science.1971. 32:451–456</ref> This is a result of the beef cattle storing ...al to the [[world food]] question to also consider the differences between animal husbandry and plant agriculture. [[Caloric concentration]] in [[fat tissue] ...

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==Locomotion== ...y be seen in hardhead catfish. So far, no evidence exists for far-field [[Animal echolocation|echolocation]], such as seen in bats or toothed whales. The s ...

...he study of the motion of biological fluids (e.g. blood flow in arteries, animal flight, fish swimming, etc.). It can be either circulatory system or respir ...ansient forces become relatively more important than viscous forces as the animal size increases.<ref name="Waite, Fine" /> ...

...r=A Synthetic Nervous System with Coupled Oscillators Controls Peristaltic Locomotion |date=2022 |editor-last=Hunt |editor-first=Alexander |editor2-last=Voulouts ...nization in the mouse spinal cord affecting left-right coordination during locomotion |journal=The Journal of Physiology |volume=591 |issue=22 |pages=5491–5508 | ...

...robiology|chapter=Survival of Tardigrades in Extreme Environments: A Model Animal for Astrobiology}}</ref><ref name=":32">{{Cite journal|last1=Le Roux|first1 ...vely narrow range of ambient temperatures.<ref>Hill R, Wyse G, Anderson A. Animal Physiology. 2004. Sinaur Associates, Inc.</ref> Through a wide variety of t ...

| url = http://lllreptile.com/info/library/animal-care-sheets/geckos/-/crested-geckos/ [[Category:Animal locomotion]] ...

...The common ancestor of all bats is hypothesized to have been an [[arboreal locomotion|arboreal]] [[Quadrupedalism|quadruped]] of the [[northern hemisphere]].<ref ...y of a handwings-only glider and found it ineffective as an actual gliding animal.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gardner |first1=Nicholas M. |last2=Dececchi |fir ...

...a motor neuron to induce muscle contraction and oppose the stretch. During locomotion, sensory neurons can reverse their activity when stretched, to promote rath ...chanically sensitive '''proprioceptor neurons''' distributed throughout an animal's body. Most vertebrates possess three basic types of proprioceptors: [[mus ...

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...hl |first4=Stefan J. |last5=Fischer |first5=Peter |title=Complex fluids in animal survival strategies |journal=Soft Matter |date=2021 |volume=17 |issue=11 |p ...

Specifically, for microorganisms that live in aqueous environments, locomotion refers to swimming, and hence the world is full of different classes of swi Prokaryotes, both bacteria and archaea, primarily use [[flagella]] for locomotion. ...

...the air at the surface. When this internal oxygen supply is depleted, the animal suffers an increasing urge to breathe caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide ...pulsive efficiency requires less energy for the same dive. Burst and glide locomotion is also often used to minimise energy consumption, and may involve using po ...

...tion|movement]] to perform an intended action. Machines can be driven by [[Animal power|animals]] and [[Human power|people]], by natural forces such as [[Win ...}}{{defn|defn=is a [[robot]] that is capable of moving in the surrounding (locomotion).<ref name="tvt2">Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Lanzon, A., "[https://ieeexplore.ie ...

...-boldface per WP:R#PLA--> [[human intelligence|displayed by humans]] and [[animal cognition|animals]]. Leading AI textbooks define the field as the study of ...]] that serves as the main [[microtubule organizing center]] (MTOC) of the animal [[cell (biology)|cell]] as well as a regulator of [[cell-cycle]] progressio ...