locomotion: Media

behavior

Videos

See a Selenops arboreal hunting spider's unique ability to glide and steer
Watch a Selenops arboreal hunting spider using its unique ability to steer...
Video: Displayed by permission of The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Discover how individual cilia employ viscous drag to coordinate power and recovery strokes for locomotion
Learn about the coordinated beating of cilia, which propel protozoans through water.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Take a microscopic look at how a eukaryotic flagellate's flagellum propels the organism through water
Movement of eukaryotic flagella in real time and slow motion.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Know how some spiders gallop through the water
Learn how some spiders “gallop” across the surface of water.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Know how some spiders walk on the surface of the water
Learn how some spiders move across the surface of water.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Pseudopodial locomotion.
Pseudopodial locomotion.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
animal tracks
Tracks of selected animals.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
animal tracks
Tracks of various North American mammals.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
animal speed records
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Peringuey's sidewinding adder
Peringuey's sidewinding adder (Bitis peringueyi).
Michael Fogden/Bruce Coleman Ltd.
skeletons of humans and gorillas compared
The skeletal structure of a human being (left) and of a gorilla (right). Several...
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