Human walking entails coordinated out-of-phase axial rotations of the thorax and pelvis. A long-held assumption is that this ability relies on adaptations for trunk flexibility present in humans, but ...
When cats fall, they usually land on their feet. This uncanny ability to right themselves before hitting the ground has long puzzled scientists. Now, a team from Yamaguchi University in Japan has the ...
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Cats always reorient midair to land on their feet, says study. 'Air-righting behaviour'
Scientists from the Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Yamaguchi, Japan, conducted 'destructive failure ...
Background A previous study [Zemková E et al. 2019] identified between-side differences in trunk rotational power in athletes trained in asymmetric sports. However, the question remains whether ...
A young chimpanzee sets out for a stroll in Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park. Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures/Corbis When we humans strut our stuff, we do it by coordinating the movements of our ...
Researchers used high-speed cameras and motion tracking to show the air-righting reflex relies on spine flexion, front and rear body rotation, and tail adjustments that conserve zero angular momentum ...
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