Talk:Animal locomotion

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edit · history · watch · refresh Stock post message.svg To-do list for Animal locomotion:

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Expand:
    • Describe the various forms in detail, summarizing the main articles if necessary. Mainly need to work on terrestrial forms, including underground (e.g. moles).
    • Other:
    • What to do about locomotion in other taxa? Perhaps a more general article on biological locomotion is needed, but then where would that leave this one?
    • Energetics diagram needed.
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[edit] Diagram

Energy cost locomotion en.svg

Hi, can anyone give more information about what kind of diagram is desired? If anyone could post a link to a photo/scan of the diagram in Biology that would be very useful for illustrators. (see meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Round 1/Request list/17) thanks --pfctdayelise (talk) 01:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Graph now exists: commons:Image:Energy cost locomotion en.svg. --pfctdayelise (talk) 01:18, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Energetics

Please do not link to "aerobic" as it's a disambiguation page. Choose the correct usage from the page and link to that, or link to the Wiktionary definiton of the word. Thanks! You can help! Twirligig (talk) 21:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed project of interest - organismal biomechanics

Hi all, I'm trying to start a Wikiproject to cover Organismal Biomechanics, and I was wondering if anyone else would be interested? Articles such as animal locomotion. gait, muscle, and similar would be our targets. See my userpage for a list of what I'm planning to work on, including some truly awful articles in desperate need of attention. See proposal page at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Wikiproject_Organismal_Biomechanics. I'll keep anyone who signs up updated via their userpages until I get a project page made. Help of all kinds is appreciated, from brain dumps to wikifying, grammar and dealing with references. Mokele (talk) 01:38, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New lead

As has been pointed out by Lambtron, there are some serious deficiencies in the intro. I took a whack at it before, and again just now, but it's still pretty unsatisfactory. Some aspects are just outright wrong (technically, movement isn't *essential* to survival since sessile organisms do just fine, but it is important), others are poorly phrased or insufficently explained. Any ideas? I figure it's overall structure should mirror the article and touch on key points such as energetics, terrestrial vs flight vs aquatic, generating forces, etc. Mokele (talk) 14:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I reworked the intro paragraph; please have a look and revise as necessary when you have the time. Much more work to do here! Lambtron (talk) 20:35, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Much better, thanks! Mokele (talk) 20:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Human locomotion

why no human locomotion article ? --Penbat (talk) 20:38, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Because humans are animals. Their locomotion in fundamentally the same as any other biped. Mokele (talk) 03:36, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
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