How to move with no rigid skeleton? The octopus has the answers.
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.
Yekutieli
Yoram
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Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. yoramkt@cc.huji.ac.il
Sumbre
German
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Flash
Tamar
T
Hochner
Binyamin
B
D000818:Animals; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D049831:Octopodiformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology