ArticleFrontiers in zoology2020
Examining the accuracy of trackways for predicting gait selection and speed of locomotion.
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- Speed from fossil trackways: calculations not validated by extant birds on compliant substrates.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Reconstructing dinosaur locomotion.Biology letters · 2025Review
- Theropod trackways as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Natural Frequency Method: estimating the preferred walking speed ofRoyal Society open science · 2021Article
- The Influence of Snow Properties on Speed and Gait Choice in the Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundUsing Froude numbers (
resultsThe species-specific model accounted for more than 60% of the variability in speed for walking and aerial running, but only accounted for 19% when grounded running, likely due to its stabilizing role while moving faster over a changing substrate. The error in speed estimated was 0-35% for all gaits when using the species-specific model, whereas
conclusionAltogether, this study highlights that using trackways to derive predictions on the locomotor speed and gait, using stride length as the only predictor, are problematic as accurate predictions require information from the animal in question.
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