Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — Animal Locomotion. [ARTICLE]

Animal Locomotion.

Since 1872 instantaneous phonography has given more accurate ideas of animal locomotion than were held previously. In a lecture on this subject at the Royal Institution, Loudon, Mr. E. Muybridge illustrated by moving pictures the interesting fact that all quadrupeds except the camel walk in the same manner. They support themselves first on two feet and then on three. The two may be either both on the same side or one on each side. When the former, the legs are widely extended, the fore-foot being thrown forward and the hind-foot stretched backward; and when the latter, the legs are both under the belly of the animal, the fore-foot being in a backward position and the hind-foot thrown forward. A critic thinks the “art of writing poetry is in decay.” If he means modern poetry is mostly rot we vote aye.