The energetic cost of locomotion can be a substantial proportion of an animal's daily energy
budget and thus key to its ecology. Studies on myriad species have added to our knowledge …

The Archosauria are a highly successful group of vertebrates, and their evolution is marked
by the appearance of diverse respiratory and metabolic strategies. This review examines …

Slow-growing broilers offer differentiation in the chicken meat market for consumers who
have distinct preferences based on perceived higher welfare indices and willingness to pay …

Broiler chickens are increasingly at the forefront of global meat production but the
consequences of fast growth and selection for an increase in body mass on bird health are …

Utilising weight cues can improve the efficiency of foraging behaviours by providing
information on nutritional value, material strength, and tool functionality. Attending to weight …

Allostatic load describes the interplay between energetic demand and availability and is
highly context dependent, varying between seasons and life‐history stages. When energy …

Organisms are subject to the laws of physics, so comparative biomechanics is a powerful
approach for identifying basic principles that apply across taxa of how morphology affects …

Abstract Background Using Froude numbers (Fr) and relative stride length (stride length: hip
height), trackways have been widely used to determine the speed and gait of an animal …

Sex differences in locomotor performance may precede the onset of sexual maturity and/or
arise concomitantly with secondary sex characteristics. Here, we present the first study to …

The minimum metabolic cost of transport (CoTmin; J kg− 1 m− 1) scales negatively with
increasing body mass (∝ M b− 1/3) across species from a wide range of taxa associated …