... Legged locomotion, commonly subsumed under the term walking, is found in most terrestrial animals. Walking is used in a diverse set of behavioral contexts, such as exploration and foraging, escape, pursuit, mating and migration, making it a central component of an animal's behavioral repertoire...

...-licence-1-1/ Highlighted Article: Selenopid spiders can attack prey throughout their entire peripheral range, showing a novel hunting behavior with high maneuverability that is generated with effectively controlled reconfigurations of long, laterigrade legs. Arthropod Legged locomotion...

... GRFs legged locomotion soft-bodied animal Manduca sexta caterpillar Articulated (stiff, jointed) and hydrostatic (soft wall, pressurized) skeletons (Chapman, 1958) are the two primary structural models used to characterize and explain the biomechanics of animal locomotion...

..., 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA 21 3 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 guinea fowl Numida meleagris backpack loading legged locomotion segmental energy oxygen consumption limb loading swing phase stance phase efficiency One approach...

.... * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 22 2 2003 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 biomechanics legged locomotion return map spring-mass model swing phase In running, kinetic and potential energy removed from the body during the first half...