Kinematics
- Escape responses of fish: a review of the diversity in motor control, kinematics and behaviour
Summary: This Review focuses on the diversity of the kinematics and neural control of escape responses and other accelerative motions that are of fundamental importance for predator–prey interactions and in other behavioural contexts.
- Beyond power amplification: latch-mediated spring actuation is an emerging framework for the study of diverse elastic systems
Summary: A framework centered on the dynamic interactions of springs and latches enables clear, comparable measurements and productive interdisciplinary pathways for biological analysis and engineering design.
- Reorientation and propulsion in fast-starting zebrafish larvae: an inverse dynamics analysis
Summary: Fish larvae may independently adjust the direction and speed of their fast start escape response, a manoeuvre crucial for survival.
- Shearing overbite and asymmetrical jaw motions facilitate food breakdown in a freshwater stingray, Potamotrygon motoro
Highlighted Article: Chewing in a freshwater stingray includes overbite cycles that exert shear forces on the food in a manner convergent with mammalian mastication.
- Dragonflies use underdamped pursuit to chase conspecifics
Highlighted Article: Territorial dragonflies pursuing conspecifics use an underdamped interception strategy, resulting in oscillating pursuit paths that may serve to intimidate or herd intruders out of the territory.
- Multichannel stroboscopic videography (MSV): a technique for visualizing multiple channels for behavioral measurements
Summary: Multichannel stroboscopic videography (MSV) is a technique for automated measurements of multiple types of visual information using a single camera.
- Predatory posture and performance in a precocious larval fish targeting evasive copepods
Highlighted Article: Investigation of a highly modified and previously undescribed fast-start of a larval coral-reef fish, which captures evasive copepod prey as early as 1 day after hatching.
- Motor control of an insect leg during level and incline walking
Highlighted Article: In stick insect hindlegs, muscle activity is adjusted to different mechanical demands during walking, primarily early in stance. Adjustments strongly affect forces/torques but not kinematics and suggest step-by-step control.
- Moving in complex environments: a biomechanical analysis of locomotion on inclined and narrow substrates
Summary: An organism's performance provides insight to its survival. To understand significant population declines in the northern quoll, we quantified biomechanical performance as they ran up narrow and wide substrates.
- Hawaiian monk seals exhibit behavioral flexibility when targeting prey of different size and shape
Summary: Hawaiian monk seals use biting and suction feeding, and these strategies are behaviorally and kinematically distinct. Prey size and shape affect how frequently each feeding strategy is used.