title: How to move with no rigid skeleton? The octopus has the answers.
abstract: The octopus is amazingly flexible and shows exceptional control and coordination in all its movements. It seems remarkable to us skeletal creatures that the octopus achieves all this without a single bone.
authors.affiliation: Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. yoramkt@cc.huji.ac.il
authors.forename: Yoram
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yekutieli
authors.forename: German
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sumbre
authors.forename: Tamar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Flash
authors.forename: Binyamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hochner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D049831:Octopodiformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology