Project director: Dr. Leslie Decker

In collaboration with the team "Locomotion" located at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris (France), this investigation aims to explore variability in small vertebrates (i.e., mice, quails, lemurs). Our team is helping to establish experimental protocols to investigate gait variability in animal locomotion by applying nonlinear analysis techniques. Recently, "Locomotion" began collecting long-term gait data with quails and mice using the technology of cineradiography with miniature treadmills and force platforms embedded in the walkway. "Locomotion" works on the analyses of locomotor motions in connection with the morphology of the internal organs.