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I think that's mainly because small animals don't generally walk like that when they're going slow.
by smackfu 12y ago
I think that's mainly because small animals don't generally walk like that when they're going slow.
- clairity 12y agoexactly, animals tend to use the most energetically efficient form of locomotion for a given desired speed (walking vs. running for example). i'm not sure that bounding is more efficient than either walking or galloping at any speed, since more energy seems to go into vertical and rotational motion than those more common forms of locomotion.