Lecture 7

Question 1

What is plantigrade?

Answer 1

Walking with the metatarsals flat on the ground

Question 2

What is digitigrade?

Answer 2

When the animal walks on its digits/toes

Question 3

What is Unguligrade

Answer 3

Walking on a hoof or nail

Question 4

What is the cursorial movement?

Answer 4

Animals built to walk/run

Question 5

Features of cursorial animals

Answer 5

Limbs generally straight, move in a parasagittal plane

Question 6

Features of non-cursorial movements

Answer 6

Very crouched limbs, often wider, run in small bursts, often less than 3kg

Question 7

What is trotting

Answer 7

No overlapping support between alternate limbs

Question 8

What is pacing

Answer 8

A non-natural gait (except camels)

Question 9

What is galloping

Answer 9

Quadrupeds only, forelimbs move in a phase like pairs, true aerial phase

Question 10

What is the Froude number?

Answer 10

indicates how well a model works in relation to the system

Question 11

What is static stability?

Answer 11

A body is in equilibrum if the forces are balanced