#Animal Locomotion

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 637, Eadweard Muybridge, 1887

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A cart-horse pulling. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.

Date: 1887

Reference: 28101i

Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements

Notes: One of 781 collotypes which form Eadweard Muybridge's magnum opus, Animal locomotion, 1887. This work originated in an attempt to settle the argument which arose in 1871 between Leland Stanford, president of the Central Pacific Railroad, and Robert Bonner, owner of the New York Ledger, as to whether a trotting horse ever had all four feet off the ground at once. Both men were prepared to enter the controversy fully and to contribute ideas and practical means to prove his side of the argument. Muybridge's solution was to photograph each stage in the trot of a horse called Occident owned by Stanford. Some of Muybridge's photographs did appear to show Occident with all four of his feet lifted at the same time clear of the ground. The research and photography for Animal Locomotion was carried out for the University of Pennsylvania in 1884-1885, using and improving the techniques developed in the 1870s. Of the 781 plates, 95 were devoted to the horse and 124 to other animals. The other 562 are devoted to men, women, and children, nude, semi-nude, and draped, walking, running, dancing, getting up and lying down, wrestling, boxing, leaping, etc. For further information see G. Hendricks, Eadweard Muybrige, London 1975, and R.B. Haas, Muybridge: man in motion, Berkeley 1976

Wellcome Collection

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Capybara walking.

Muybridge, Eadweard. "Animal locomotion. Plate 746." Photograph. (c) 1887. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/70796b68z (accessed August 03, 2023).

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Eadweard Muybridge | Movement of the Hand, Beating Time: Plate 535 from Animal Locomotion. 1884-86. medium: collotype 

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Btw, the former copyright holder was Eadweard Muybridge ... You might know him as the one who split a horse's movements into sequences via chronophotography (taking many photos in a short time interval. You actually needed several cameras for this!). If you display them rapidly after each other, you get a film (a technique that was for the first time successfully marketed by the Lumière brothers im 1895).

Phenakistoscope disc, 1893.

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The Kangaroo's Incredible Hopping Secrets

Did you know kangaroos can hop long distances effortlessly? Discover the science behind their unique movement!

Check out my other videos here: Animal Kingdom Animal Facts Animal Education

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On this September 27, 2024, Cookie wishes you a delightful 199th anniversary to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway to use steam locomotives (1825)!

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So… funny story…

I was watching TFA season 2 and I saw the pattern of “all spark fragment goes in thing; thing becomes new bot” and I thought

“Gee imagine if it went in a train, we could officially get Astrotrain. But wait, he wouldn’t be a triple changer…. Unless….”

And so Blitzwing now has a son. Enjoy!

Bonus:

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how do snakes move? i get that they slither and all, but how does that help them move forward?

Congratulations, you've unlocked one of my favorite topics:

The very basic answer is that snakes have special muscles connected to their ribs, and those muscles connect to the wide belly scales, and moving their rib muscles and belly scales in tandem propels the snake along.

If you look at a snake skeleton, you'll notice that each rib is actually connected to the spine with a ball-and-socket joint.

The reason for that is that all those joints allow for a much greater range of motion. Snakes move their rib muscles in sections, and as they slither along, the muscles attached to their belly scutes will cling around imperfections in the surface they're moving on to help propel them forwards.

To illustrate how that works, I'm actually going to show you a picture of a snake climbing a brick wall because it's the same concept and does a great job of illustrating. If you look at this picture, you'll see the snake is moving along grooves and imperfections in the brick - clinging to those grooves to get purchase and help it move! Slithering is the same concept, just horizontal.

There are different types of snake locomotion (check out my "snake locomotion" tag for more specifics!) but those are the basics. If you watch a snake slither, you'll notice how their body moves in sections - each section of ribs connected to those special muscles, moving along like train cars following the engine, propeling the snake forward along imperfections in the ground.

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Horse and Rider Galloping from Animal Locomotion, Plate 631, Eadweard Muybridge, 1883-86

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I don't know what possessed me to stay up till 2 AM animating this

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Orenstein & Koppel Nr. 7610 (Bj 1918)

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An AMV celebrating Indie Animation. Links to all Indie Cartoons and campaigns in the video description.

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Human Locomotion Chronophotography Composite, Étienne-Jules Marey, 1886

Gif by Frank Petter