Numida meleagris
- Guineafowl with a twist: asymmetric limb control in steady bipedal locomotion
Summary: Guineafowl running on treadmills and trackways often yaw from their direction of travel; this deviation is reflected by the limb kinematics, wherein femora synchronously rotate about their long axes to skew limbs mediolaterally through the stride cycle.
- How do treadmill speed and terrain visibility influence neuromuscular control of guinea fowl locomotion?
Summary: Guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) show speed-dependent shifts in neuromuscular control during obstacle negotiation, characterized by a greater reliance on anticipatory modulation and stride-to-stride neural adjustments at slow speed, shifting towards feedforward activation and intrinsic mechanical stability at high speed.