Faster access than browser!
277 relations: Actinopterygii, Adhesion, Aerodynamics, African bee, Airfoil, Albatross, Ambush predator, Amphibious fish, Anatomical terms of location, Anatomical terms of motion, Anglerfish, Animal, Animal locomotion, Animal migration, Animal navigation, Aquatic animal, Arachnid, Arboreal locomotion, Arctic tern, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arm, Arthropod, Astropecten, Atmosphere of Earth, Ballooning (spider), Banded flying snake, Barnacle, Basiliscus (genus), Bat, Benthic zone, Bipedalism, Bird, Bird feet and legs, Bird flight, Bird of prey, Bow wave, Brachiation, Buoyancy, Bureau of Land Management, Camouflage, Canis, Carbon dioxide, Cartwheel (gymnastics), Cebrennus rechenbergi, Cephalopod, Cestoda, Cetacea, Chrysidinae, Cicindela dorsalis, Cilium, ..., Common ostrich, Convergence zone, Convergent evolution, Coypu, Crawling (human), Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales), Dipodomyinae, Diving bird, Dog flea, Dorsal fin, Drag (physics), Dugong, Dune, Dynamic soaring, Earthworm, Echinoderm, Ecological Society of America, Ecology (journal), Eel, Elastic energy, Electromyography, Energy, Enzyme, Escape reflex, Escape response, Ethology, Feather, Filter feeder, Fin, Fish, Fish fin, Fish locomotion, Flea, Flight, Fluid, Fluoroscopy, Flying and gliding animals, Flying fish, Flying frog, Flying gurnard, Foraging, Force platform, Fossorial, Friction, Frog, Gait, Gecko, Gentoo penguin, Geometer moth, Gerridae, Gibbon, Gliding ant, Gliding flight, Gobabeb, Golden mole, Gravity, Grazing, Greenwood Publishing Group, Ground squirrel, Gull, Gymnotus, Habitat, Hadrurus arizonensis, Handspring (gymnastics), Hare, Hemolymph, Hoatzin, Hopping mouse, Human body weight, Human taxonomy, Huntsman spider, Hydrophobe, Inertia, Infant, Insect flight, Japanese flying squid, Jerboa, Jet propulsion, Joint, Joule, Journal of Morphology, Jumping, Kangaroo, Kangaroo rat, Kinematics, Kinesis (biology), Kleptoparasitism, Larva, Leather star, Lee wave, Leech, Leg, Libinia emarginata, Lift (force), Lift (soaring), Lobster, Luidia, Macropodidae, Manta ray, Mantis shrimp, Marine iguana, Marine mammal, Marsupial mole, Mating system, Matutidae, Metachronal rhythm, Mictyris platycheles, Mole (animal), Mole cricket, Momentum, Mountain, Movement of Animals, Mucus, Mudskipper, Muscle, Naked mole-rat, Namib, Nannosquilla decemspinosa, National Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation, Natural selection, Nature (journal), Nectar, Nekton, Neon flying squid, Newton's laws of motion, Nonverbal communication, Nymphalidae, Ocean sunfish, Octopus, Opiliones, Oxygen, Pangolin, Parasitism, Parasitoid, Particle image velocimetry, PBS, Pedetes, Pelvis, Peristalsis, Permian, Peromyscus, Physiology, Pink fairy armadillo, Portuguese man o' war, Portunidae, Predation, Prehensile tail, Prehensility, Pseudoscorpion, Pterosaur, Quadrupedalism, Rabbit, Race track, Raninidae, Ratite, Remora, Respiration (physiology), Ridge lift, Robert McNeill Alexander, Robert R. Reisz, Rodent, Role of skin in locomotion, Ross Piper, Rotating locomotion in living systems, Running, Sailfish, Sailing, Sand star, Scorpion, Sense of balance, Sexual dimorphism, Shoebill, Shrimp, Siamang, Skeleton, Snow leopard, Solifugae, Sonomicrometry, Southern Africa, Sperm whale, Spider silk, Spider wasp, Spinneret, Squid, Squirrel glider, Static electricity, Striped rocket frog, Sucker (zoology), Sucrose, Sugar glider, Suminia, Sunflower sea star, Surface tension, Suspensory behavior, Swim bladder, Swordfish, Synapsid, Tail, Taxis, Tendon, Terrestrial animal, Terrestrial planet, Tetrapod, The Journal of Experimental Biology, Thelyphonida, Thermal, Thrust, Tilefish, Torpedo, Trade-off, Treadmill, Tree snail, Tripedalism, Tripod, Tube feet, Undulatory locomotion, University of Sydney Library, Velella, Video, Vulture, Walking, Walking catfish, Walking fish, Water, Wheel spider, Wing. Expand index (227 more) »
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Actinopterygii · See more »
Adhesion
Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another (cohesion refers to the tendency of similar or identical particles/surfaces to cling to one another).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Adhesion · See more »
Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics, from Greek ἀήρ aer (air) + δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly its interaction with a solid object, such as an airplane wing.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Aerodynamics · See more »
African bee
The African honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata) is a subspecies of the Western honey bee.
New!!: Animal locomotion and African bee · See more »
Airfoil
An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is the shape of a wing, blade (of a propeller, rotor, or turbine), or sail (as seen in cross-section).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Airfoil · See more »
Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Albatross · See more »
Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals or other organisms, such as some nematophagous fungi and carnivorous plants, that capture or trap prey by stealth or by strategy (typically not conscious strategy), rather than by speed or by strength.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ambush predator · See more »
Amphibious fish
Amphibious fish are fish that are able to leave water for extended periods of time.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Amphibious fish · See more »
Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location deal unambiguously with the anatomy of animals, including humans.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Anatomical terms of location · See more »
Anatomical terms of motion
Motion, the process of movement, is described using specific anatomical terms.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Anatomical terms of motion · See more »
Anglerfish
Anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Anglerfish · See more »
Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Animal · See more »
Animal locomotion
Animal locomotion, in ethology, is any of a variety of movements or methods that animals use to move from one place to another.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Animal locomotion · See more »
Animal migration
Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Animal migration · See more »
Animal navigation
Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Animal navigation · See more »
Aquatic animal
A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Aquatic animal · See more »
Arachnid
Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Arachnid · See more »
Arboreal locomotion
Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Arboreal locomotion · See more »
Arctic tern
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Arctic tern · See more »
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre (40 ha) zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum · See more »
Arm
In human anatomy, the arm is the part of the upper limb between the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) and the elbow joint.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Arm · See more »
Arthropod
An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Arthropod · See more »
Astropecten
Astropecten is a genus of sea stars of the family Astropectinidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Astropecten · See more »
Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, that surrounds the planet Earth and is retained by Earth's gravity.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Atmosphere of Earth · See more »
Ballooning (spider)
Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ballooning (spider) · See more »
Banded flying snake
The twin-barred tree snake (Chrysopelea pelias) is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Banded flying snake · See more »
Barnacle
A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Barnacle · See more »
Basiliscus (genus)
Basiliscus is a genus of large corytophanid lizards, commonly known as basilisks, which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Basiliscus (genus) · See more »
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bat · See more »
Benthic zone
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Benthic zone · See more »
Bipedalism
Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bipedalism · See more »
Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bird · See more »
Bird feet and legs
The anatomy of bird legs and feet is diverse, encompassing many accommodations to perform a wide variety of functions.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bird feet and legs · See more »
Bird flight
Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bird flight · See more »
Bird of prey
A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bird of prey · See more »
Bow wave
A bow wave is the wave that forms at the bow of a ship when it moves through the water.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bow wave · See more »
Brachiation
Brachiation (from "brachium", Latin for "arm"), or arm swinging, is a form of arboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Brachiation · See more »
Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Buoyancy · See more »
Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Bureau of Land Management · See more »
Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Camouflage · See more »
Canis
Canis is a genus of the Canidae containing multiple extant species, such as wolves, coyotes, jackals, dingoes, and dogs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Canis · See more »
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Carbon dioxide · See more »
Cartwheel (gymnastics)
A cartwheel is a sideways rotary movement of the body.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cartwheel (gymnastics) · See more »
Cebrennus rechenbergi
Cebrennus rechenbergi, also known as the Moroccan flic-flac spider and Cartwheeling spider, is a species of huntsman spider indigenous to Morocco.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cebrennus rechenbergi · See more »
Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cephalopod · See more »
Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm (Platyhelminthes) phylum, commonly known as tapeworms.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cestoda · See more »
Cetacea
Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cetacea · See more »
Chrysidinae
The subfamily Chrysidinae contains those species that are most commonly recognized as cuckoo wasps, being by far the largest and most familiar subfamily.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Chrysidinae · See more »
Cicindela dorsalis
Cicindela dorsalis (common name eastern beach tiger beetle) is a species of tiger beetle.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cicindela dorsalis · See more »
Cilium
A cilium (the plural is cilia) is an organelle found in eukaryotic cells.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Cilium · See more »
Common ostrich
The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either of two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Common ostrich · See more »
Convergence zone
A convergence zone in meteorology is a region in the atmosphere where two prevailing flows meet and interact, usually resulting in distinctive weather conditions.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Convergence zone · See more »
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Convergent evolution · See more »
Coypu
The coypu (Myocastor coypus), also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Coypu · See more »
Crawling (human)
Crawling or Quadrupedal movement is a method of human locomotion that makes use of all four limbs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Crawling (human) · See more »
Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales)
The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, a division of the New South Wales Government, is responsible for the administration and development for agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, forestry, and biosecurity in New South Wales.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales) · See more »
Dipodomyinae
Dipodomyinae is a subfamily of heteromyid rodents, the kangaroo rats and mice.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Dipodomyinae · See more »
Diving bird
Diving birds are birds which plunge into water to catch fish or other food.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Diving bird · See more »
Dog flea
The dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis) is a species of flea that lives as an ectoparasite on a wide variety of mammals, particularly the domestic dog and cat.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Dog flea · See more »
Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Dorsal fin · See more »
Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance, a type of friction, or fluid resistance, another type of friction or fluid friction) is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Drag (physics) · See more »
Dugong
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Dugong · See more »
Dune
In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Dune · See more »
Dynamic soaring
Dynamic soaring is a flying technique used to gain energy by repeatedly crossing the boundary between air masses of significantly different velocity.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Dynamic soaring · See more »
Earthworm
An earthworm is a tube-shaped, segmented worm found in the phylum Annelida.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Earthworm · See more »
Echinoderm
Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Echinoderm · See more »
Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ecological Society of America · See more »
Ecology (journal)
Ecology is a scientific journal that publishes research and synthesizes papers in the field of ecology.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ecology (journal) · See more »
Eel
An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and about 800 species.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Eel · See more »
Elastic energy
Elastic energy is the potential mechanical energy stored in the configuration of a material or physical system as work is performed to distort its volume or shape.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Elastic energy · See more »
Electromyography
Electromyography (EMG) is an electrodiagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Electromyography · See more »
Energy
In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Energy · See more »
Enzyme
Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Enzyme · See more »
Escape reflex
Escape reflex, a kind of escape response, is a simple reflectory reaction in response to stimuli indicative of danger, that initiates an escape motion of an animal.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Escape reflex · See more »
Escape response
In animal behaviour, escape response, escape reaction, or escape behaviour is a rapid series of movements performed by an animal in response to possible predation.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Escape response · See more »
Ethology
Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ethology · See more »
Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Feather · See more »
Filter feeder
Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Filter feeder · See more »
Fin
A fin is a thin component or appendage attached to a larger body or structure.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fin · See more »
Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fish · See more »
Fish fin
Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fish fin · See more »
Fish locomotion
Fish locomotion is the variety of types of animal locomotion used by fish, principally by swimming.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fish locomotion · See more »
Flea
Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Flea · See more »
Flight
Flight is the process by which an object moves through an atmosphere (or beyond it, as in the case of spaceflight) without contact with the surface.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Flight · See more »
Fluid
In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fluid · See more »
Fluoroscopy
Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fluoroscopy · See more »
Flying and gliding animals
A number of animals have evolved aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Flying and gliding animals · See more »
Flying fish
The Exocoetidae are a family of marine fishes in the order Beloniformes class Actinopterygii.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Flying fish · See more »
Flying frog
A flying frog (also called a gliding frog) is a frog that has the ability to achieve gliding flight.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Flying frog · See more »
Flying gurnard
The flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans), also known as the helmet gurnard, is a bottom-dwelling fish of tropical to warm temperate waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Flying gurnard · See more »
Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Foraging · See more »
Force platform
Force platforms or force plates are measuring instruments that measure the ground reaction forces generated by a body standing on or moving across them, to quantify balance, gait and other parameters of biomechanics.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Force platform · See more »
Fossorial
Cape ground squirrel. A fossorial (from Latin fossor, "digger") is an animal adapted to digging and lives primarily, but not solely, underground.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Fossorial · See more »
Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Friction · See more »
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Frog · See more »
Gait
Gait is the pattern of movement of the limbs of animals, including humans, during locomotion over a solid substrate.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gait · See more »
Gecko
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gecko · See more »
Gentoo penguin
The long-tailed gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gentoo penguin · See more »
Geometer moth
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Geometer moth · See more »
Gerridae
The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, or jesus bugs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gerridae · See more »
Gibbon
Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gibbon · See more »
Gliding ant
Gliding ants are arboreal ants of several different genera that are able to control the direction of their descent when falling from a tree.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gliding ant · See more »
Gliding flight
Gliding flight is heavier-than-air flight without the use of thrust; the term volplaning also refers to this mode of flight in animals.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gliding flight · See more »
Gobabeb
The Gobabeb Training and Research Center is an internationally recognised centre for dry land training and research in Namibia.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gobabeb · See more »
Golden mole
Golden moles are small, insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Southern Africa, where their Afrikaans names are gouemolle or kruipmolle (singular gouemol or kruipmol).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Golden mole · See more »
Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gravity · See more »
Grazing
Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Grazing · See more »
Greenwood Publishing Group
ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Greenwood Publishing Group · See more »
Ground squirrel
The ground squirrels are members of the squirrel family of rodents (Sciuridae) which generally live on or in the ground, rather than trees.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ground squirrel · See more »
Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gull · See more »
Gymnotus
Gymnotus is a genus of Neotropical freshwater fish in the family Gymnotidae found widely in South America, Central America and southern Mexico (36th parallel south to 18th parallel north).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Gymnotus · See more »
Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Habitat · See more »
Hadrurus arizonensis
Hadrurus arizonensis, the giant desert hairy scorpion, giant hairy scorpion, or Arizona Desert hairy scorpion, is the largest scorpion in North America, and one of the 8–9 species of Hadrurus in the United States, attaining a length of.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Hadrurus arizonensis · See more »
Handspring (gymnastics)
A handspring is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete revolution of the body by lunging headfirst from an upright position into an inverted vertical position and then pushing off (i.e., "springing") from the floor with the hands so as to leap back to an upright position.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Handspring (gymnastics) · See more »
Hare
Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Hare · See more »
Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod body remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Hemolymph · See more »
Hoatzin
The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), also known as the reptile bird, skunk bird, stinkbird, or Canje pheasant, is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco basins in South America.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Hoatzin · See more »
Hopping mouse
A hopping mouse is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Hopping mouse · See more »
Human body weight
Human body weight refers to a person's mass or weight.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Human body weight · See more »
Human taxonomy
Human taxonomy is the classification of the human species (systematic name Homo sapiens) within zoological taxonomy.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Human taxonomy · See more »
Huntsman spider
Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Huntsman spider · See more »
Hydrophobe
In chemistry, hydrophobicity is the physical property of a molecule (known as a hydrophobe) that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Hydrophobe · See more »
Inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its position and state of motion.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Inertia · See more »
Infant
An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Infant · See more »
Insect flight
Insects are the only group of invertebrates that have evolved wings and flight.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Insect flight · See more »
Japanese flying squid
The Japanese flying squid, Japanese common squid or Pacific flying squid, scientific name Todarodes pacificus, is a squid of the family Ommastrephidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Japanese flying squid · See more »
Jerboa
The jerboa (from جربوع) forms the bulk of the membership of the family Dipodidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Jerboa · See more »
Jet propulsion
Jet propulsion is thrust produced by passing a jet of matter (typically fluid) in the opposite direction to the direction of motion.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Jet propulsion · See more »
Joint
A joint or articulation (or articular surface) is the connection made between bones in the body which link the skeletal system into a functional whole.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Joint · See more »
Joule
The joule (symbol: J) is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Joule · See more »
Journal of Morphology
The Journal of Morphology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of anatomy and morphology featuring primary research articles, review articles, and meeting abstracts.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Journal of Morphology · See more »
Jumping
Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Jumping · See more »
Kangaroo
The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").
New!!: Animal locomotion and Kangaroo · See more »
Kangaroo rat
Kangaroo rats, small rodents of genus Dipodomys, are native to western North America.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Kangaroo rat · See more »
Kinematics
Kinematics is a branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the mass of each or the forces that caused the motion.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Kinematics · See more »
Kinesis (biology)
Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Kinesis (biology) · See more »
Kleptoparasitism
Kleptoparasitism (literally, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food (as in the case of cuckoo bees, which lay their eggs on the pollen masses made by other bees; food resources could also be in the form of hosts of parasitic or parasitoid wasps).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Kleptoparasitism · See more »
Larva
A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Larva · See more »
Leather star
The leather star (Dermasterias imbricata) is a starfish in the family Asteropseidae found at depths to 100 m off the western seaboard of North America.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Leather star · See more »
Lee wave
In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Lee wave · See more »
Leech
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worm-like animals that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass Hirudinea.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Leech · See more »
Leg
A leg is a weight bearing and locomotive anatomical structure, usually having a columnar shape.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Leg · See more »
Libinia emarginata
Libinia emarginata, the portly spider crab, common spider crab or nine-spined spider crab, is a species of stenohaline crab that lives on the Atlantic coast of North America.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Libinia emarginata · See more »
Lift (force)
A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts a force on it.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Lift (force) · See more »
Lift (soaring)
Lift is a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by soaring aircraft and soaring birds.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Lift (soaring) · See more »
Lobster
Lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Lobster · See more »
Luidia
Luidia is a genus of starfish in the family Luidiidae (Sladen, 1889) in which it is the only genus.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Luidia · See more »
Macropodidae
Macropods are marsupials belonging to the family Macropodidae, the kangaroo family, which includes kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several others.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Macropodidae · See more »
Manta ray
Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Manta.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Manta ray · See more »
Mantis shrimp
Mantis shrimps, or stomatopods, are marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mantis shrimp · See more »
Marine iguana
The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), also known as the Galápagos marine iguana, is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) that has the ability, unique among modern lizards, to forage in the sea, making it a marine reptile.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Marine iguana · See more »
Marine mammal
Marine mammals are aquatic mammals that rely on the ocean and other marine ecosystems for their existence.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Marine mammal · See more »
Marsupial mole
Marsupial moles (Notoryctidae) are specialized marsupial mammals, known from two species distributed in the Australian interior.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Marsupial mole · See more »
Mating system
A mating system is a way in which a group is structured in relation to sexual behaviour.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mating system · See more »
Matutidae
Matutidae is a family of crabs, sometimes called moon crabs, adapted for swimming or digging.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Matutidae · See more »
Metachronal rhythm
A metachronal rhythm or metachronal wave refers to wavy movements produced by the sequential action (as opposed to synchronized) of structures such as cilia, segments of worms or legs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Metachronal rhythm · See more »
Mictyris platycheles
Mictyris platycheles is a species of crab found on mudflats on the east coast of Australia from Tasmania and Victoria to Queensland.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mictyris platycheles · See more »
Mole (animal)
Moles are small mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle (i.e., fossorial).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mole (animal) · See more »
Mole cricket
Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mole cricket · See more »
Momentum
In Newtonian mechanics, linear momentum, translational momentum, or simply momentum (pl. momenta) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Momentum · See more »
Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mountain · See more »
Movement of Animals
Movement of Animals (or On the Motion of Animals; Greek Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως; Latin De Motu Animalium) is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Movement of Animals · See more »
Mucus
Mucus is a slippery aqueous secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mucus · See more »
Mudskipper
Mudskippers are amphibious fish, presently included in the subfamily Oxudercinae, within the family Gobiidae (gobies).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Mudskipper · See more »
Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Muscle · See more »
Naked mole-rat
The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy, is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Naked mole-rat · See more »
Namib
The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Namib · See more »
Nannosquilla decemspinosa
Nannosquilla decemspinosa is a species of long-bodied, short-legged mantis shrimp.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Nannosquilla decemspinosa · See more »
National Wildlife
National Wildlife is an American magazine published bi-monthly by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a nonprofit conservation group.
New!!: Animal locomotion and National Wildlife · See more »
National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, with over six million members and supporters, and 51 state and territorial affiliated organizations (including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
New!!: Animal locomotion and National Wildlife Federation · See more »
Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Natural selection · See more »
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Nature (journal) · See more »
Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Nectar · See more »
Nekton
Nekton or necton refers to the aggregate of actively swimming aquatic organisms in a body of water.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Nekton · See more »
Neon flying squid
The neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii), sometimes called the red flying squid, akaika, and red squid is a species of large flying squid in the family Ommastrephidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Neon flying squid · See more »
Newton's laws of motion
Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that, together, laid the foundation for classical mechanics.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Newton's laws of motion · See more »
Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication (NVC) between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless cues.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Nonverbal communication · See more »
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world, belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Nymphalidae · See more »
Ocean sunfish
The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is the heaviest known bony fish in the world.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ocean sunfish · See more »
Octopus
The octopus (or ~) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Octopus · See more »
Opiliones
The Opiliones or (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters or daddy longlegs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Opiliones · See more »
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Oxygen · See more »
Pangolin
Pangolins or scaly anteaters are mammals of the order Pholidota (from the Greek word φολῐ́ς, "horny scale").
New!!: Animal locomotion and Pangolin · See more »
Parasitism
In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Parasitism · See more »
Parasitoid
A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host and at the host's expense, and which sooner or later kills it.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Parasitoid · See more »
Particle image velocimetry
Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is an optical method of flow visualization used in education and research.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Particle image velocimetry · See more »
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
New!!: Animal locomotion and PBS · See more »
Pedetes
Pedetes is a genus of rodent, the springhares, in the family Pedetidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Pedetes · See more »
Pelvis
The pelvis (plural pelves or pelvises) is either the lower part of the trunk of the human body between the abdomen and the thighs (sometimes also called pelvic region of the trunk) or the skeleton embedded in it (sometimes also called bony pelvis, or pelvic skeleton).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Pelvis · See more »
Peristalsis
Peristalsis is a radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagates in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Peristalsis · See more »
Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Permian · See more »
Peromyscus
Peromyscus is a genus of rodents whose members are commonly referred to as deer mice.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Peromyscus · See more »
Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Physiology · See more »
Pink fairy armadillo
The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) or pichiciego is the smallest species of armadillo (mammals of the families Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae, recognized by a bony armor shell), first described by Richard Harlan in 1825.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Pink fairy armadillo · See more »
Portuguese man o' war
The Atlantic Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), also known as the man-of-war, is a marine hydrozoan of the family Physaliidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Portuguese man o' war · See more »
Portunidae
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Portunidae · See more »
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Predation · See more »
Prehensile tail
A prehensile tail is the tail of an animal that has adapted to be able to grasp or hold objects.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Prehensile tail · See more »
Prehensility
Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Prehensility · See more »
Pseudoscorpion
A pseudoscorpion, also known as a false scorpion or book scorpion, is an arachnid belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Pseudoscorpion · See more »
Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Pterosaur · See more »
Quadrupedalism
Quadrupedalism or pronograde posture is a form of terrestrial locomotion in animals using four limbs or legs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Quadrupedalism · See more »
Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Rabbit · See more »
Race track
A race track (or "racetrack", "racing track" or "racing circuit") is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Race track · See more »
Raninidae
Raninidae is a family of unusual crabs, sometimes known as "frog crabs", on account of their frog-like appearance.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Raninidae · See more »
Ratite
A ratite is any of a diverse group of flightless and mostly large and long-legged birds of the infraclass Palaeognathae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ratite · See more »
Remora
The remoras, sometimes called suckerfish, are a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Perciformes.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Remora · See more »
Respiration (physiology)
In physiology, respiration is defined as the movement of oxygen from the outside environment to the cells within tissues, and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Respiration (physiology) · See more »
Ridge lift
Ridge lift (or 'slope lift') is created when a wind strikes an obstacle, usually a mountain ridge or cliff, that is large and steep enough to deflect the wind upward.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ridge lift · See more »
Robert McNeill Alexander
Robert McNeill (Neill) Alexander, CBE FRS (7 July 1934 – 21 March 2016) was a British zoologist and a leading authority in the field of biomechanics.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Robert McNeill Alexander · See more »
Robert R. Reisz
Robert Rafael Reisz is a Canadian paleontologist and specialist in the study of early amniote and tetrapod evolution.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Robert R. Reisz · See more »
Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Rodent · See more »
Role of skin in locomotion
Role of skin in locomotion describes how the integumentary system is involved in locomotion.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Role of skin in locomotion · See more »
Ross Piper
Ross Piper is a British zoologist, entomologist, and explorer.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Ross Piper · See more »
Rotating locomotion in living systems
Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion; however, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not appear to play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of certain flagella, which function like corkscrews).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Rotating locomotion in living systems · See more »
Running
Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Running · See more »
Sailfish
A sailfish is a fish of the genus Istiophorus of billfish living in colder areas of all the seas of the earth.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sailfish · See more »
Sailing
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sailing · See more »
Sand star
The sand star, Luidia foliolata, is a species of starfish in the family Luidiidae found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean on sandy and muddy seabeds at depths to about.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sand star · See more »
Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Scorpion · See more »
Sense of balance
The sense of balance or equilibrioception is one of the physiological senses related to balance.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sense of balance · See more »
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sexual dimorphism · See more »
Shoebill
The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) also known as whalehead, is a very large stork-like bird.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Shoebill · See more »
Shrimp
The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Shrimp · See more »
Siamang
The siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) is an arboreal black-furred gibbon native to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Siamang · See more »
Skeleton
The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Skeleton · See more »
Snow leopard
The snow leopard or ounce (Panthera uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Snow leopard · See more »
Solifugae
Solifugae is an order of animals in the class Arachnida known variously as camel spiders, wind scorpions, sun spiders, or solifuges.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Solifugae · See more »
Sonomicrometry
Sonomicrometry is a technique of measuring the distance between piezoelectric crystals based on the speed of acoustic signals through the medium they are embedded in.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sonomicrometry · See more »
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Southern Africa · See more »
Sperm whale
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sperm whale · See more »
Spider silk
Spider silk is a protein fibre spun by spiders.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Spider silk · See more »
Spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps or pompilid wasps.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Spider wasp · See more »
Spinneret
A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Spinneret · See more »
Squid
Squid are cephalopods of the two orders Myopsida and Oegopsida, which were formerly regarded as two suborders of the order Teuthida, however recent research shows Teuthida to be paraphyletic.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Squid · See more »
Squirrel glider
The squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) is a nocturnal gliding possum.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Squirrel glider · See more »
Static electricity
Static electricity is an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Static electricity · See more »
Striped rocket frog
The striped rocket frog (Litoria nasuta) or in its native range known as the rocket frog, occurs mostly in coastal areas from northern Western Australia to around Gosford in New South Wales at its southernmost point, with a disjunct population occurring further south at the Sydney suburb of Avalon.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Striped rocket frog · See more »
Sucker (zoology)
A sucker in zoology refers to specialised attachment organ of an animal.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sucker (zoology) · See more »
Sucrose
Sucrose is common table sugar.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sucrose · See more »
Sugar glider
The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sugar glider · See more »
Suminia
Suminia getmanovi is an extinct species of anomodont, that lived 260 million years ago in the late Permian ("zone II").
New!!: Animal locomotion and Suminia · See more »
Sunflower sea star
Pycnopodia helianthoides, commonly known as the sunflower sea star, is a large sea star found in the northeast Pacific.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Sunflower sea star · See more »
Surface tension
Surface tension is the elastic tendency of a fluid surface which makes it acquire the least surface area possible.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Surface tension · See more »
Suspensory behavior
Suspensory behaviour is a form of arboreal locomotion or a feeding behavior that involves hanging or suspension of the body below or among tree branches.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Suspensory behavior · See more »
Swim bladder
The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Swim bladder · See more »
Swordfish
Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as broadbills in some countries, are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Swordfish · See more »
Synapsid
Synapsids (Greek, 'fused arch'), synonymous with theropsids (Greek, 'beast-face'), are a group of animals that includes mammals and every animal more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Synapsid · See more »
Tail
The tail is the section at the rear end of an animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tail · See more »
Taxis
A taxis (plural taxes) is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Taxis · See more »
Tendon
A tendon or sinew is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tendon · See more »
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Terrestrial animal · See more »
Terrestrial planet
A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Terrestrial planet · See more »
Tetrapod
The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tetrapod · See more »
The Journal of Experimental Biology
The Journal of Experimental Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of comparative physiology and integrative biology.
New!!: Animal locomotion and The Journal of Experimental Biology · See more »
Thelyphonida
Thelyphonida is an arachnid order comprising invertebrates commonly known as whip scorpions or vinegaroons (also spelled vinegarroons and vinegarones).
New!!: Animal locomotion and Thelyphonida · See more »
Thermal
A thermal column (or thermal) is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere, a form of atmospheric updraft.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Thermal · See more »
Thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Thrust · See more »
Tilefish
Tilefishes are mostly small perciform marine fish comprising the family Malacanthidae.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tilefish · See more »
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Torpedo · See more »
Trade-off
A trade-off (or tradeoff) is a situational decision that involves diminishing or losing one quality, quantity or property of a set or design in return for gains in other aspects.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Trade-off · See more »
Treadmill
A treadmill is a device generally for walking or running or climbing while staying in the same place.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Treadmill · See more »
Tree snail
Tree snail is a common name that is applied to various kinds of tropical air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks that have shells, and that live in trees, in other words, are exclusively arboreal in habitat.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tree snail · See more »
Tripedalism
Tripedalism (from the Latin tri.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tripedalism · See more »
Tripod
A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tripod · See more »
Tube feet
Tube feet are small active tubular projections on the oral face of an echinoderm, whether the arms of a starfish, or the undersides of sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Tube feet · See more »
Undulatory locomotion
Undulatory locomotion is the type of motion characterized by wave-like movement patterns that act to propel an animal forward.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Undulatory locomotion · See more »
University of Sydney Library
The University of Sydney Library is the library system of the University of Sydney.
New!!: Animal locomotion and University of Sydney Library · See more »
Velella
Velella is a monospecific genus of hydrozoa in the Porpitidae family.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Velella · See more »
Video
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Video · See more »
Vulture
A vulture is a scavenging bird of prey.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Vulture · See more »
Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Walking · See more »
Walking catfish
The walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) is a species of freshwater airbreathing catfish native to Southeast Asia.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Walking catfish · See more »
Walking fish
A walking fish, or ambulatory fish, is a fish that is able to travel over land for extended periods of time.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Walking fish · See more »
Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Water · See more »
Wheel spider
The wheel spider or golden wheel spider (Carparachne aureoflava), is a huntsman spider native to the Namib Desert of Southern Africa.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Wheel spider · See more »
Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift, while moving through air or some other fluid.
New!!: Animal locomotion and Wing · See more »
Redirects here:
Animal Locomotion, Locomotion in animals, Locomotor activity, Locomotory organ, Motion (biology), Motion in biology, Passive locomotion in animals.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion
