Jumping in the Salamander Desmognathus ocoee
Unlike most terrestrial vertebrates, which use force generated from the hind limbs to jump, salamanders jump by laterally bending and then rapidly straightening the body, using momentum to carry the individual through the air. This movement is strikingly similar to both the terrestrial escape respon...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Copeia. - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1913. - 2013(2013), 3, Seite 512-516 |
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