Archive image from page 62 of Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science. Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular . descriptivezoopr00muyb Year: 1893 THE GALLOP 41 The method of galloping described applies to the horse and its allies, and to most of the cloven and soft- footed animals. In the gallop of the dog the sequence of foot fall- ing and the action of the body is materially different, and the animal is free from support twice in each stride. Assumino that a racinof hound after a fiioht throuoh the air with elongated body and extended legs (like th
Archive image from page 62 of Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science. Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular . descriptivezoopr00muyb Year: 1893 THE GALLOP 41 The method of galloping described applies to the horse and its allies, and to most of the cloven and soft- footed animals. In the gallop of the dog the sequence of foot fall- ing and the action of the body is materially different, and the animal is free from support twice in each stride. Assumino that a racinof hound after a fiioht throuoh the air with elongated body and extended legs (like the THE GALLOP OF THE DOG. conventional galloping horse), lands upon the left fore foot, the right fore will next touch the ground; from this he will again spring into the air, and with curved body and flexed legs land upon the right hind foot, while the right fore feet will be half the length of the body to the rear. The left hind now descends, another flight is effected, and again the left fore repeats its functions of support and propulsion. These successive foot fallings are common to all dogs when galloping, and it is worthy of note that the same rotary action in the use of the limbs is adopted in the gallop of the elk, the deer and the antelope, all of
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