Animal Locomotion
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 April 2018
- ISBN 9780198743163
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages236 pages
- Size 247x190x11 mm
- Weight 538 g
- Language English
- Illustrations over 100 illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book examines how animals move, comparing running, swimming, and flying. It also reviews the common principles of design and movement that animals have evolved to move through very different physical environments.
MoreLong description:
Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of animal movement through a broad comparative and integrative approach, including basic mathematics and physics, examination of new and enduring literature, consideration of classic and cutting-edge methods, and a strong emphasis on the core concepts that consistently ground the dizzying array of animal movements. Across scales and environments, this book integrates the biomechanics of animal movement with the physiology of animal energetics and the neural control of locomotion. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, incorporating new content on non-vertebrate animal locomotor systems, studies of animal locomotion that have inspired robotic designs, and a new chapter on the use of evolutionary approaches to locomotor mechanisms and performance.
...this edition manages to teach the key principles while also conveying the wonder of animal design. This is a book that should be on the desk of every young graduate student and all faculty in this field as a reference and an inspiration.
Table of Contents:
Physical and biological properties and principles related to animal locomotion
Muscles and skeletons: the building blocks of animal movement
Energetics of locomotion
Movement on land
Movement in water
Movement in air
Jumping, climbing and suspensory locomotion
Neuromuscular control of movement
Evolution of locomotion
