... of performance on different types of substrates suggest that they confer to the ‘jack of all trades and master of none’ principle. * Author for correspondence ([email protected]) 15 11 2011 © 2012. 2012 substrate structure performance limb morphology speed lizard...

... dead dogs on which total body mass and a series of variables describing limb morphology have also been measured (K. Steudel and M. J. Myers, in preparation). Limb length was found to be an excellent predictor of limb inertia in the forelimb and the hindlimb, which both have coefficients...

... that animals differing in limb morphology also differ in their locomotor costs. In previous experiments on three species of cursorial mammals differing considerably in limb structure, no such differences were detected. Since the factors that determine the rate of energy consumption of a running animal...