Mitigating memory effects during undulatory locomotion on hysteretic materials
© Schiebel et al. While terrestrial locomotors often contend with permanently deformable substrates like sand, soil, and mud, principles of motion on such materials are lacking. We study the desert-specialist shovel-nosed snake traversing a model sand and find body inertia is negligible despite rapi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135984 |