Energy Expenditure in Animal Locomotion

关键词: Control theory 、 Animal locomotion 、 Calorie 、 Energy expenditure 、 Biology

摘要: A wide variety of data on the energy expended by animals in running, flying, or swimming can be accounted for simple hypothesis that all require same quantity to carry a unit their own body mass one "step." For running locomotion this is approximately 3 x 10-4 calorie per gram step.