Figure 1. Flight types involved in cheetah galloping, A simple model for analyzing galloping motion (IMAGE)

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Figure 1. Flight types involved in cheetah galloping, A simple model for analyzing galloping motion

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(Left) Flight types involved in cheetah galloping (Right) A simple model for analyzing galloping motion. A team of researchers from Japan devised a simple analytical model emulating vertical hopping and spine bending movement displayed by cheetahs during running and obtained criteria for determining flight types like cheetah galloping

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Image courtesy: Tomoya Kamimura from Nagoya Institute of Technology

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