How Mammals Run: Anatomical Adaptations

TL;DR: Predictive equations based on diaphyseal cross-sectional parameters provided the most accurate estimates of body mass in caviomorph rodents and dasypodids, but the confounding influence of locomotor posture, fossoriality, and arboreality render these relationships less predictable across all three groups considered here.

TL;DR: This work uses a simplified monopod to give an understandable reason why self-stabilizing running should be possible, and Physically realistic simulations running with one, two, or four legs demonstrate self-StabilizingRunning.

TL;DR: The authors' ANOVA results reveal consistent differences in postcranial skeletal morphology among locomotor groups, with cursorial and arboreal species more accurately classified than terrestrial, scansorial, or semiaquatic species.