...-1/ Summary: An organism's performance provides insight to its survival. To understand significant population declines in the northern quoll, we quantified biomechanical performance as they ran up narrow and wide substrates. Performance Northern quoll Torque Substrate reaction force...

... ( Rattus norvegicus ) as they moved on horizontal poles of different diameters. The data were compared with data pertaining to terrestrial locomotion. We investigated three-dimensional kinematics and dynamics using biplanar cineradiography with simultaneous substrate reaction force (SRF) measurements...

... how gray short-tailed opossums( Monodelphis domestica ), which are generalized marsupials living on or near the ground, adjust to travel on rough and smooth 2 cm-diameter arboreal trackways. Limb contact position was determined via high-speed videography, and substrate reaction force was measured...

... 2006 locomotion quadruped substrate reaction force limb excursion required coefficient of friction The natural habitats of most small mammals are replete with heterogeneous substrates, including sloped terrain, rocks, and fallen and growing vegetation, so that small mammals must...

...Brigitte Demes; Kristian J. Carlson; Theresa M. Franz SUMMARY In an attempt to characterize more fully the variation in substrate reaction forces in the locomotor repertoire of primates, we recorded the forces involved in directional changes for two species. These are the first records of turning...

... on the arboreal trackway and laterally directed limb forces on the terrestrial trackway. We propose that the modifications in substrate reaction force on the arboreal trackway are due to the differential placement of the limbs about the dorsolateral aspect of the branch. Specifically, the pes typically made...