“Humans have around 50 muscles in each leg, which are arranged in a way that allows us to move in numerous ways. The flexibility of movement in human legs is expressed, for instance, through the different styles of dance that have existed throughout the ages and humorously through TV sketches such as ‘The Ministry of […]
Tag: walk
Making them (animals) walk the walk
Animator Sydney Padua, in her blog, draws some insights about how different animals walk [click through, to get to her blog, and see the images much larger, and so read the writing that accompanies each drawing]: Here’s some of my notes on four-legged walks (our feature animal: COWS!) for a class I’m teaching at the Animation […]
Bacteria can walk — and often do
A stand-up-and-take-notice report last month in the journal Science explains that some kinds of bacteria can walk, and that those bacteria often do. The study, done by researchers from UCLA, The University of Illinois, and Notre Dame University, is: “Bacteria Use Type IV Pili to Walk Upright and Detach from Surfaces“, Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Jacinta […]
A Quick Take on Fast Walkers
Some scientists struggle to understand walking, as is evident in this study: “Walking Fast—Ranking High: A Sociobiological Perspective on Pace,” A. Schmitt and K. Atzwanger, Ethology and Sociobiology, vol. 17, no. 5, September 1996, pp. 451–62. The authors explain [AIR 15:5]: “We hypothesized that habitual fast walking might be a means to acquire and/or to […]