Size-related changes in foot impact mechanics in hoofed mammals.

Foot-ground impact is mechanically challenging for all animals, but how do large animals mitigate increased mass during foot impact? We hypothesized that impact force amplitude scales according to isometry in animals of increasing size through allometric scaling of related impact parameters. To test...

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Main Authors: Sharon Elaine Warner, Phillip Pickering, Olga Panagiotopoulou, Thilo Pfau, Lei Ren, John Richard Hutchinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0054784&type=printable
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