Provides an overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly.
It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms..
It tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air.
This book introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles.
Provides an overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly