...Jessica Taylor; D. Charles Deeming; Gregory P. Sutton ABSTRACT Animals often leap from substrates that give way under them, such as leaves, soft ground or flexible branches. This provides an added complexity for latch-mediated spring-actuated (LaMSA) jumping animals because the spring-loaded system...

... and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Summary: Thermal robustness, achieved through the use of elastic mechanisms, depends on the relative contribution of spring and muscle energy. LaMSA Elastic recoil Jumping Muscle Temperature Army...

... settlement, juvenile snapping shrimp develop an elastic mechanism that allows them to generate ultrafast strikes, cavitation bubbles and the highest recorded accelerations for underwater, repeated-use movements. Latch-mediated spring actuation Development Alpheidae Alpheus heterochaelis LaMSA...

... shifts in muscle-spring tuning in systems using latch-mediated spring actuation (LaMSA). We hypothesized that variation in jumping performance would result from increased force capacity in muscles and relatively stiffer elastic structures, resulting in greater energy storage. To test this, we...

...; variation in snout length results in a trade-off between pivot and suction feeding. LaMSA Kinematics Syngnathidae Fish Tel Aviv University http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004375 Suction feeding is a highly stereotypic feeding behavior employed by the majority of aquatic...

... shifts in the shape of external structures and shifts in muscle anatomy towards increased specialization. Power amplification Latch-mediated spring actuation LaMSA Micro-computed tomography Histology Functional morphology Arachnida Fig. 1. Kinematics and images from high-speed...

... and release of elastic energy from the spring is only now being elucidated. Here, we critically examine the metrics and concepts of power amplification and encourage a framework centered on latch-mediated spring actuation (LaMSA). We emphasize approaches and metrics of LaMSA systems that will forge a pathway...