Integrating biomechanics, behavior and ecology requires a mechanistic understanding of
the processes producing the movement of animals. This calls for contemporaneous …

Animals that glide produce aerodynamic forces that enable transit through the air in both
arboreal and aquatic environments. The relative ease of gliding compared with flap** …

The world's gliding mammals are an extraordinary group of animals that have the ability to
glide from tree to tree with seemingly effortless grace. There are more than 60 species of …

Although many cylindrical animals swim through water, flying snakes of the genus
Chrysopelea are the only limbless animals that glide through air. Despite a lack of limbs …

Locomotor biomechanics faces a core trade-off between laboratory-based and field-based
studies. Laboratory conditions offer control over confounding factors, repeatability, and …

Animals often exhibit the ability to operate in and transition between multiple modes of
locomotion efficiently and elegantly. On the other hand, bioinspired robotic platforms have …

The bizarre scansoriopterygid theropods Yi and Ambopteryx had skin stretched between
elongate fingers that form a potential membranous wing. This wing is thought to have been …

This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers
detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flap** flight. The skeletomuscular …

Gliding locomotion has convergently evolved in multiple vertebrate and invertebrate taxa,
spanning terrestrial and aquatic animals. The selective pressures attributed to the evolution …

The discontinuity of the canopy habitat is one of the principle differences between the
terrestrial and arboreal environments. An animal's ability to cross gaps—to move from one …