Accurately quantifying an animal’s movement is crucial for developing a greater empirical and theoretical understanding of its behaviour, and for simulating biologically plausible movement patterns.

Many animals, including apex predators, move in groups. We know this collective behavior is fundamental to the animal's ability to move in complex environments, but less is known about what drives the ...

In this work, we first focus on the locomotion of the gray bichir Polypterus senegalus, a ray-finned fish that can swim in water but also breathe and walk in air, as a specific exemplar of the ...

There are about 28,000 species of bony fishes — the largest taxonomic group of vertebrates — and they have been around for a very long time (over 400 million years). So it’s no surprise that they have ...

A bio-inspired robot has been used to illustrate the mechanism by which some species of fish are able to walk on land, as reported in a Nature Communications paper. This demonstration may provide ...

Researchers questioned if coordinated group movements by animals moving through a fluid could reduce the energy cost of locomotion. By combining biomechanics and bioenergetics the researchers found ...