Scaling Stride Frequency and Gait to Animal Size: Mice to Horses

摘要: The stride frequency at which animals of different size change from one gait to another (walk, trot, gallop) changes in a regular manner with body mass. speed the transition trot gallop can be used as an equivalent for comparing size. This point occurs lower speeds and higher frequencies smaller animals. Plotting trot-gallop function mass logarithmic coordinates yields straight line.