Search Results - "Wynn, Melissa L."
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Running faster causes disaster: trade-offs between speed, manoeuvrability and motor control when running around corners in northern quolls (Dasyurus hallucatus)
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-02-2015)“…Movement speed is fundamental to all animal behaviour, yet no general framework exists for understanding why animals move at the speeds they do. Even during…”
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Optimal running speeds when there is a trade-off between speed and the probability of mistakes
Published in Functional ecology (01-10-2017)“…Summary Do prey run as fast as they can to avoid capture? This is a common assumption in studies of animal performance, yet a recent mathematical model…”
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Sex-specific trade-offs and compensatory mechanisms: bite force and sprint speed pose conflicting demands on the design of geckos (Hemidactylus frenatus)
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-10-2013)“…One of the more intuitive viability costs that can result from the possession of exaggerated sexually selected traits is increased predation pressure as a…”
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