Sentence examples for locomotor pattern from inspiring English sources

Diet is also closely related to locomotor pattern and to body size.

This locomotor pattern produces a relatively rapid and continuous forward movement but is restricted to areas with thick canopies of trees.

The locomotor pattern of saltation (hopping) is confined mainly to kangaroos, anurans (tailless amphibians), rabbits, and some groups of rodents in the vertebrates and to a number of insect families in the arthropods.

From the evidence provided by the Fayum primate fauna, it is evident that quadrupedalism was becoming established as the typical locomotor pattern and that vertical clinging and leaping, the characteristic gait of the Eocene forebears of the fauna, was no longer retained by the genera represented at this site.

In mammals the locomotor pattern in each limb comprises four different phases including flexor — extensor alternation.

The model provides a basis for functional identification of spinal interneurons involved in generation and control of the locomotor pattern.

Primates with remarkably few changes in their skeletons and musculature have adopted a bewildering variety of locomotor patterns.

Whereas some bottom movements are identical with terrestrial locomotor patterns, others can occur effectively only in the water, where buoyancy is necessary to reduce body weight.

Several locomotor patterns for climbing are used by arboreal mammals, the grasping ability of which has been enhanced by the presence of either strong claws or prehensile fingers.

Burrowing or boring invertebrates have evolved a number of different locomotor patterns to penetrate soil, wood, and stone, of which soil or mud is the easiest to penetrate.

Although these swimming movements can be considered a form of fossorial locomotion, the following discussion considers only locomotor patterns in which most of the activity of the animals involved is confined to tunnels that they leave behind.