..., is not only significantly larger than that of the other primates but is also larger than its hindlimb excursion angle (74 deg.) ( Schmidt,2005a ). With the exception of the brown lemur, total forelimb excursion is fairly similar among the primates( Table 3 ). Angular excursion hardly changes with increasing...

... with hind limb length, because intralimb proportions of the hind limb remain fairly constant. Therefore, the strong positive allometric scaling of the hind limb in arboreal quadrupedal primates affects neither the kinematics of hind limb segments nor the total angular excursion of the limb. The angular...