Energy of the oscillating legs of a fast‐moving cheetah, pronghorn, jackrabbit, and elephant

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Journal of morphology

• Publication date

  1985-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/jmor.1051840103PMID 3989863
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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