Animal Locomotion

Author : R. McNeill Alexander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691126348
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Animal Locomotion written by R. McNeill Alexander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then 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, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.

Author : Alexander
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401160090
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locomotion of Animals written by Alexander and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how animals travel around on land, in water and in the air. It is mainly about mechanisms of locomotion, their limitations and their energy requirements. There is some information about muscle physiology in Chapter 1, but only as much as seems necessary for the discussions of mechanisms and energetics. There is information in later chapters about the patterns of repetitive movement involved, for instance, in different gaits, but nothing about nervous mechanisms of coordination. I have tried to include most ofthe widely-used methods of locomotion, but have not thought it sensible to try to mention every variety of locomotion used by animals. This book is designed for undergraduates, but I hope that other people will also find it interesting. It is possible and sometimes illuminating to use complex mathematics in discussions of animal locomotion. This book includes many equations, but little mathematics. Such mathematics as there is, is simple. Discussions of the mechanisms and energetics of locomotion inevitably involve mechanics. I expect that some readers will know a lot of mechanics, and some hardly any. I have tried to help the latter without boring the former, by putting a summary of the necessary mechanics in an appendix (p. 140). References from the main text to the appendix will tell readers where they can find help, if they need it. Figures and equations in the appendix have numbers distinguished by a prefix A (for instance, Figure A.3).

Author : Malcolm S. Gordon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351966197
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by Malcolm S. Gordon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Locomotion: Physical Principles and Adaptations is a professional-level, state of the art review and reference summarizing the current understanding of macroscopic metazoan animal movement. The comparative biophysics, biomechanics and bioengineering of swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are placed in contemporary frameworks of biodiversity, evolutionary process, and modern research methods, including mathematical analysis. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. Although not encyclopedic in its coverage, anyone interested in organismal biology, functional morphology, organ systems and ecological physiology, physiological ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology should find this book useful.

Author : Michael D. Mattesi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136131736
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Force: Animal Drawing written by Michael D. Mattesi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many artists are unsure how to bridge the gap between the many basic 'how to draw' books and the more advanced ones dealing with the esoteric details of composition, perspective and anatomy. Force: Animal Drawing is the comprehensive guide to developing artistic animals that are creative, dynamic and anatomical, bridging the gap between foundational art and advanced techniques. Artists and animators alike all find animal inspiration when animating characters- be they human or inhuman. For a unique 'larger than life' character, readers will learn to apply the unique facets of animal movement, locomotion, expressions, facial features, physical build and personality to their traditional and digital art. Readers will also adapt key industry tricks and techniques to personify animal animations with key characteristics of a human's face. Explore the practical application of force theories and learn from today's leading character designers with the included artist interviews and an extended video tutorial via www.drawingforce.com.

Author : James Bell Pettigrew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. McNeill Alexander
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mechanics of Animal Locomotion written by R. McNeill Alexander and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eadweard Muybridge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486129993
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Motion written by Eadweard Muybridge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 4,000 photographs in series and stopped action of horses, cats, lions, deer, kangaroos, etc. Indispensable for animal artists. Classic of 19th-century photography. "Impressive and valuable collection." — Scientific American.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219486
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's De Motu Animalium written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal activity, along with commentary and interpretive essays on the work.

Author : T. J. Pedley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scale Effects in Animal Locomotion written by T. J. Pedley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204160
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls written by David Hu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn, the latest discoveries about animal mechanics are inspiring scientists to invent robots and devices that move with similar elegance and efficiency. Hu follows scientists as they investigate a multitude of animal movements, from the undulations of sandfish and the way that dogs shake off water in fractions of a second to the seemingly crash-resistant characteristics of insect flight. Not limiting his exploration to individual organisms, Hu describes the ways animals enact swarm intelligence, such as when army ants cooperate and link their bodies to create bridges that span ravines. He also looks at what scientists learn from nature's unexpected feats--such as snakes that fly, mosquitoes that survive rainstorms, and dead fish that swim upstream. As researchers better understand such issues as energy, flexibility, and water repellency in animal movement, they are applying this knowledge to the development of cutting-edge technology. Integrating biology, engineering, physics, and robotics, [this book] demystifies the remarkable mechanics behind animal locomotion"--Page 4 of cover.