How Do Dogs Walk? Even Animal Anatomy Experts Get It Wrong 50 Percent Of The Time
Monday, January 26, 2009 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Despite the fact that most of us see our four-legged friends walking around every day, most people (including many experts in natural history museums and illustrators for veterinary anatomy text books) apparently still don't know how they do it. A new study in Current Biology shows that anatomists, taxidermists, and toy designers get the walking gait of horses and other quadruped animals wrong about half the time, despite the fact that their correct walking behavior was described and published more than 120 years ago. read more
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