In chat yesterday, "double suspension" in a dog's flat-out run came up; here are stills capturing that, from a post several years ago.
> There was a photographer named Muybridge in the late > 19th century who did a series 'Animals in Motion' (one > of my horse books has some of his sequences of running > horses). Two of his dog sequences (one a heavy, > inflexible mastiff and the other a springy whippet) > are reachable from the following site: > > http://bowlingsite.mcf.com/Movement/locoindex.html The whippet sequence shows double suspension, which means all four feet off the ground both in a collected or flexed phase, and in full extension. Horses have a single suspension gallop (flexed phase), although I think that some Thoroughbreds (Secretariat IIRC) have been found to have the extended phase as well. Debbi Off For A Lesson Now Maru __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
