Why measure a rodent’s gait in the first place? Locomotion is a major behavioral endpoint that has important applications in research. Changes to locomotor behavior, measured by the animal’s ...

The study, led by the BioRobotics Laboratory in EPFL's School of Engineering, offers new insights into why and how such gait transitions occur in animals. "Previous research has introduced energy ...

A new study shows that anatomists, taxidermists, and toy designers get the walking gait of horses and other quadruped animals wrong about half the time. Despite the fact that most of us see our ...

Prehistoric humans correctly depicted the gait of four-legged animals, such as this bull in the famous cave paintings of Lascaux, France, more frequently than modern artists. Image via Horvath et.

Giant long-necked dinosaurs walked with a gait that was different from that of any living animal, according to a new method for learning an animal’s stride pattern from its footprints.

Since Aristotle's text, "On the Gait of Animals," human beings have been preoccupied with locomotion. While the philosopher writes of watching people's shadows against a wall to observe gait ...

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And so there are a couple of factors, if we look at the human gait, that are really special. One is that we are having fairly heavy legs in comparison to other animals and even, like, other bipeds.