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Fig. 3. Measured and predicted relationships of relative stride length (RSL) to
body mass (Mb) in horses trotting at a Froude number of
0.5. Crosses are measured values, solid line is allometric equation fitted to
measured values
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broken line is relationship predicted with linear tendon properties
, circles are
relationship predicted with realistic nonlinear tendon properties
. The
predicted effect of size is substantially reduced by taking into account the
nonlinear properties of tendon, but is still greater than measured
experimentally. This suggests that additional factors compensate for size
effects in horses.
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