title: Motor control: the importance of stiffness.
abstract: An octopus brings food grasped by a tentacle to its mouth by bending the tentacle around a joint formed by stiffened distal and proximal tentacle muscles, and thus may use motor control strategies analogous to those in animals with articulated limbs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, 45701, USA. hooper@ohiou.edu
authors.forename: Scott L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Hooper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D049831:Octopodiformes / Q000502:physiology*