An article on Science Daily explains how humans are not fully sure of how our four legged friends walk, which catch the interests of many experts in natural history museums and illustrators for veterinary anatomy text books. These experts apparently don't know how they do it. "Our key finding is that the chance to find erroneous depictions of quadruped walking in our surrounding environment is about 50 percent, which corresponds to nothing else than pure accident," said Gábor Horváth of Eötvös University.
"This was quite unexpected because the experts of animal locomotion have known well the characteristics of quadruped walking ever since the famous and pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge, published in the 1880s."
As proven by experts, all four-legged animals step with their left
hind leg, then with their left
foreleg. Following that, they step with their right hind leg, then they step with their right foreleg, and so on. When a dog is walking slowly, it needs maximum static stability
. A dog's body is supported by three feet on the ground at all times, while walking, which form a triangle and the closer their center of mass is to the center of those three points, the more stable they will be.
After reading this I watched my dog walk and it was exactly as this article said. I probably never would have noticed that. But it's pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteSo did I. That is kind of weird, and i never actually thought about that. I didn't know it was that complicated.
ReplyDeleteI also spend time to watch my dog walk and it was spot on to the article. That is just to darn complicated
ReplyDeleteWhat a great article Lucas! I'm with the other comments...this is something that I wasn't aware of and I can't wait to get home and closely watch my dog walk around the house.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I don't think you've done a very good job of summarizing the article. I found it difficult to really understand what the article was about without actually going to SciencDaily and reading it myself. So I think you fell a little short of that benchmark.
I would also like for you to share a little more with your readers about why this article is relevant to you or to class. Let us know why you picked it. The mechanics of the post, overall, are very good, but make sure you label each of these as a "current event."
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I don't have a dog, but I watched my cat walk and they do the same thing.
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