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Contact: Monte Basgall
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Duke University
Caption: In studying the efficiency of animal gaits, Duke's Daniel Schmitt has discovered that a domestic cat's stride is decidedly inefficient, particularly when it is stalking. Whereas a dog can recover about 70 percent of the energy of each stride by converting potential energy to kinetics, the cat can only convert about 40 percent.
Credit: Duke Research Communications
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