ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Low effective mechanical advantage of giraffes' limbs during walking reveals trade-off between limb length and locomotor performance.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- How long limbs reduce the energetic burden on the heart of the giraffe.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Exploring the Effects of Giraffe Skin Disease Limb Lesions on Locomotion.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The differentiated impacts and constraints of allometry, phylogeny, and environment on the ruminants' ankle bone.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Optimal Gearing of Musculoskeletal Systems.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024Article
- Dynamic similarity and the peculiar allometry of maximum running speed.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Effect of Bionic Crab Shell Attitude Parameters on Lift and Drag in a Flow Field.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Modern three-dimensional digital methods for studying locomotor biomechanics in tetrapods.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Review
- Low effective mechanical advantage of giraffes' limbs during walking reveals trade-off between limb length and locomotor performance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The evolutionary biomechanics of locomotor function in giant land animals.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
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