Play patterns were divided into: solitary play (including manipulation of an object and locomotion play) and social play (with mother or peers).
Our results argue that the striatum of one hemisphere controls kinematics of contralateral limbs during stereotyped locomotion and plays a prominent role in the selection of the right motor program so that these limbs successfully cross over obstacle.
In conclusion, our results argue that the striatum of one hemisphere controls kinematics of contralateral limbs during stereotyped locomotion and plays a prominent role in the selection of the right motor program so that these limbs successfully cross over obstacle.
Recent studies demonstrate that the flagellar motors responsible for cell locomotion also play a role, adding or subtracting FliM subunits to maximise sensitivity to pathway signals.
Several authors (Payne 1973; Norberg 1991; Coleman 2008; Hingee and Magrath 2009) have proposed that sound produced as a by-product of locomotion may play a significant role in animal communication.
Accompanied by bones, cartilage and tendons it provides the means of locomotion, but also plays an important role in metabolic homoeostasis of the whole organism.
In addition, a better understanding of the role that locomotion and posture plays in the health of the spine could aid in the treatment of individuals afflicted with symptomatic vertical intervertebral disc herniation.
The main behavioural categories were: foraging, exploration, playing, locomotion, resting, sleeping, biting and fighting.
Sounds or water movements produced by locomotion seem to play a communicative role in fish schooling (Larsson 2011), but it remains to be studied if ISOL serves a similar purpose in flight formations of birds.
The Dynamic Similarity Hypothesis (DSH), first applied to comparative biomechanics by Alexander Alexanderr, 1976; Alexander and Jayes, 1983), is one of the most far reaching concepts in animal locomotion and has played an essential role in our understanding of terrestrial locomotor evolution (Vaughan and O'Malley, 2005).
