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Don't break a leg: running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy on uneven terrain
Aleksandra V. Birn-Jeffery, Christian M. Hubicki, Yvonne Blum, Daniel Renjewski, Jonathan W. Hurst, Monica A. Daley
Journal of Experimental Biology 2014 217: 3786-3796; doi: 10.1242/jeb.102640
Aleksandra V. Birn-Jeffery
1Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
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Christian M. Hubicki
2Dynamic Robotics Laboratory, Oregon State University, 204 Rogers Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Yvonne Blum
1Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
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vol. 217 no. 21, 3786-3796

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.102640
PubMed 
25355848

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Print ISSN 
0022-0949
Online ISSN 
1477-9145
History 
  • Received January 15, 2014
  • Accepted August 25, 2014
  • Published online October 29, 2014.
Copyright & Usage 
© 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.


Author Information

  1. Aleksandra V. Birn-Jeffery1,*,‡,
  2. Christian M. Hubicki2,‡,
  3. Yvonne Blum1,
  4. Daniel Renjewski2,
  5. Jonathan W. Hurst2 and
  6. Monica A. Daley1,§
  1. 1Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
  2. 2Dynamic Robotics Laboratory, Oregon State University, 204 Rogers Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
  1. ↵§ Author for correspondence (mdaley{at}rvc.ac.uk)
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Don't break a leg: running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy on uneven terrain
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