Godzilla from a Zoological Perspective

作者: Per Christiansen

DOI: 10.1023/A:1007531524040

关键词:

摘要: The 1998 TriStar movie Godzilla proved to be a major blockbuster, although not the financial success that was initially anticipated and critics have been rather unforgiving. Apart from radically different external morphology compared classic Japanese monster, new character apparently made old version on number of key points make him more biologically probable. However, calculations show his limbs limb muscles must severely undersized move huge bulk around at even leisurely pace, most other biological problems with Godzilla, e.g., growth rates reptilian physiology such massive size, remained unaltered. actually plausible biomechanical point view.

参考文章(31)
Gregory M. Erickson, Christopher A. Brochu, How the ‘terror crocodile’ grew so big Nature. ,vol. 398, pp. 205- 206 ,(1999) , 10.1038/18343
Ronald M. Nowak, Ernest P. Walker, Walker's mammals of the world ,(1968)
P. L. Else, A. J. Hulbert, Evolution of mammalian endothermic metabolism: "leaky" membranes as a source of heat American Journal of Physiology-regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology. ,vol. 253, pp. 1- 7 ,(1987) , 10.1152/AJPREGU.1987.253.1.R1
Max Kleiber, Body size and metabolism Hilgardia. ,vol. 6, pp. 315- 353 ,(1932) , 10.3733/HILG.V06N11P315
John E. A. Bertram, Andrew A. Biewener, Differential scaling of the long bones in the terrestrial carnivora and other mammals. Journal of Morphology. ,vol. 204, pp. 157- 169 ,(1990) , 10.1002/JMOR.1052040205
Andrew A. Biewener, Mammalian terrestrial locomotion and size BioScience. ,vol. 39, pp. 776- 783 ,(1989) , 10.2307/1311183
Per Christiansen, Long bone scaling and limb posture in non-avian theropods: Evidence for differential allometry Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. ,vol. 19, pp. 666- 680 ,(1999) , 10.1080/02724634.1999.10011180