Locomotor

We devised novel experiments to examine how the limbs of elephants support and propel their mass and to explore the factors that may constrain locomotor performance in these largest of living land animals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In view of all this intraspecific variability, Shine & Shetty (2001a) noted how Yellow-lipped sea kraits might ‘offer exceptional opportunities to study phylogenetic shift in locomotor ability’ because they ‘display considerable intraspecific and interspecific diversity in terms of the degree to which they use terrestrial vs. aquatic habits’ (p. 338). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Intraspecific variation in locomotor ability was studied in L. colubrina by Shine & Shetty (2001a) who found that males were substantially more agile on land than were females. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Intraspecific variation in locomotor abilities among snakes is pretty special however, elsewhere being documented only where pregnancy makes big females less agile than males, and in garter snakes where individuals that have only just emerged from hibernation are less agile than warmed-up, fully active indiduals (Shine et al. 2000). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Mercury, iodine and all other alteratives, by suppression of external elimination, create internal chronic diseases of the most dreadful types, such as locomotor ataxy, paresis, etc. ❋ Henry Lindlahr (1893)

They also enable us to treat many cases of nervous diseases heretofore regarded as almost hopeless, such as locomotor ataxia, paralysis, epilepsy and spinal affections, with a degree of success which has been very gratifying alike to physicians and patients. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

As part of a research project at the University of Louisville, he underwent 26 months of locomotor training, a rehabilitative technique in which he was suspended in a harness over a treadmill while therapists moved his legs to make a stepping motion. ❋ Katherine Hobson (2011)

Besides minimizing heat loss in winter by means of increased insulation, reindeer and caribou can reduce energy expenditure by adopting appropriate behavior; in particular, by reducing the total daily locomotor activity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You must know by now that so long as the company is represented by you and Jesse I will belong to it until old age or locomotor ataxia sever my connection. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

Decapod crustaceans characteristically have five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax, such as crab, shrimp and lobster. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Diel locomotor activity of deer mice Peromyscus maniculatus infected with Trichinella nativa or Trichinella pseudospiralis. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

What was the locomotor adaptation of Ardipithecus really like? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term endotherm refers to animals (birds, mammals, some fishes and insects, and even some plants) that are capable of generating sufficient amounts of heat energy to maintain a high core temperature (e.g. 37-40 °C in birds and mammals) by metabolic means – usually derived from aerobic activity of locomotor muscles in animals and by unique biochemical mechanisms in plants (e.g., skunk cabbage). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sifakas are what is known as ‘arboreal clingers and leapers’, a locomotor category first identified by Napier & Walker (1967). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

When Professor [McGonagall] raised her wand high in the air, she spoke with great force “Piertotum Locomotor” and the [knights] fell like stone angels ready to defend [the castle] ❋ Do What You’re Afraid To Do (2020)