Principles Of Animal Locomotion

Provides an overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. This book introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. It tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms.

• | By (Author): R. McNeill Alexander
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• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 19, 2006
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780691126340