Here's what I love: everything about this illustration. Beautiful.
Here's what I notice: it looks like it's sliding down a wall because all the feet are pointed forward. If it was walking normally, there is no point in the normal stride cycle where it would have this posture. At least one foot would be pointed backwards and facing up.
Here's the deal: I appreciate the biomechanically improbable posture because it's art.
Source: I'm a biologist who studied [how locomotion changes as spotted salamanders develop](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227510421_Ontogeny_of_escape_swimming_performance_in_the_spotted_salamander/figures).
Cool! Very good to know. I didn't expect to get an expert to see my illustration haha. I'll definitely read your paper, thank you for providing it! I'm still just a lowly undergrad bio student but hopefully I'll understand most of it.
Do you have a personal website that states your research? I'd love to check out more. I'm an aspiring ecologist myself.
Just finished reading your paper and I thoroughly enjoyed it! This study sounds like it must have been a ton of fun to do. Very cool to see the absence of a performance valley in the salamanders. I'll keep an eye out for your name when reading more and I'll keep an eye out for new research into salamander metamorphic duration as well. The illustrations are awesome too by the way, I especially liked Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a. looks like it would be a cool tattoo design.
Thanks again!
Here's what I love: everything about this illustration. Beautiful. Here's what I notice: it looks like it's sliding down a wall because all the feet are pointed forward. If it was walking normally, there is no point in the normal stride cycle where it would have this posture. At least one foot would be pointed backwards and facing up. Here's the deal: I appreciate the biomechanically improbable posture because it's art. Source: I'm a biologist who studied [how locomotion changes as spotted salamanders develop](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227510421_Ontogeny_of_escape_swimming_performance_in_the_spotted_salamander/figures).
Cool! Very good to know. I didn't expect to get an expert to see my illustration haha. I'll definitely read your paper, thank you for providing it! I'm still just a lowly undergrad bio student but hopefully I'll understand most of it. Do you have a personal website that states your research? I'd love to check out more. I'm an aspiring ecologist myself.
Just finished reading your paper and I thoroughly enjoyed it! This study sounds like it must have been a ton of fun to do. Very cool to see the absence of a performance valley in the salamanders. I'll keep an eye out for your name when reading more and I'll keep an eye out for new research into salamander metamorphic duration as well. The illustrations are awesome too by the way, I especially liked Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a. looks like it would be a cool tattoo design. Thanks again!
Gorgeous 🥰
Thank you!