Animal Locomotion

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Description: How do animals move? How does this motion change based on environment? How has such motion evolved across groups? This course will explore the relationship of body form to locomotion. We will focus on all types of animals, which represent a broad diversity of types of locomotion (e.g. flying, swimming, jumping), environments (e.g. air, land, water), and scales of body size (i.e. from single cells to whales). A laboratory will serve to introduce students to the methods and technology used in studying locomotion. May not be used for degree credit with BIOL 4484 .