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Scientists made dairy cows try to walk in a straight line to help define normal gait.
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Article Title: Kinematic gait characteristics of straight line walk in clinically sound dairy cows
Funding: The study was funded by the grants 2016-01760 (MR) and 2018-00737 (EH) from the Swedish Research Council Formas, (http://www.formas.se/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Indirect support was provided through salaries by the home institutions of all co-authors. MT received an Erasmus+ grant for her travel to visit the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253479
Journal
PLoS ONE