ArticleIntegrative organismal biology (Oxford, England)2019
Locomotion of Ants Walking up Slippery Slopes of Granular Materials.
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- Limb loss and specialized leg dynamics in tiny water-walking insects.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Mechanistic framework for reduced-order models in soft materials: Application to three-dimensional granular intrusion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Sand-throwing behaviour in pit-building antlion larvae: insights from finite-element modelling.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Uneven substrates constrain walking speed in ants through modulation of stride frequency more than stride length.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many insects encounter locomotory difficulties in walking up sand inclines. This is masterfully exploited by some species for building traps from which prey are rarely able to escape, as the antlion and its deadly pit. The aim of this work is to tear apart the relative roles of granular material properties and slope steepness on the insect leg kinematics, gait patterns, and locomotory stability. For this, we used factorial manipulative experiments with different granular media inclines and the ant
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