Terrestrial Locomotion in Penguins: It Costs More to Waddle
- 11 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 195 (4278) , 592-594
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.835018
Abstract
The energetic cost for walking is relatively higher for penguins than for other birds or for quadrupeds of similar body mass. The morphology of penguins seems to represent a compromise between aquatic and terrestrial locomotion wherein both energy economy and speed suffer when the birds move on land.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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