ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: Geometric mechanics of lizard terrestrial swimming.
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Abstract
Although typically possessing four limbs and short bodies, lizards have evolved diverse morphologies, including elongate trunks with tiny limbs. Such forms are hypothesized to aid locomotion in cluttered/fossorial environments but propulsion mechanisms (e.g., the use of body and/or limbs to interact with substrates) and potential body/limb coordination remain unstudied. Here, we use biological experiments, a geometric theory of locomotion, and robophysical models to investigate body-limb coordination in diverse lizards. Locomotor field studies in short-limbed, elongate lizards (
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