Principles of Animal Locomotion
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Provides an overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. This book introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. It 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.
Autor: | Alexander, R. McNeill |
Nakladatel: | Princeton University Press |
ISBN: | 9780691126340 |
Rok vydání: | 2006 |
Jazyk : | Angličtina |
Vazba: | Paperback |
Počet stran: | 384 |
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