Are Fast-Moving Elephants Really Running?

John Hutchinson

Are fast moving elephants really running?

Links to Pages Related to Our Elephant Research

THANKS TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS
THAT HAVE HELPED WITH THIS LONG TERM PROJECT!

Resting young elephant with mahout (in red) and friends at the Ayutthaya elephant camp. Photo: John R. Hutchinson

Institutions that assisted our work directly or indirectly:

Thai Elephant Conservation Center (National Elephant Institute)
Stanford University:
University of California:
University of Colorado, Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
University of California at Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine
National Science Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure
Journal of Experimental Biology

Elephant websites:

Elephant Information Repository
World Wildlife Fund: Endangered Species: Asian Elephant

Locomotion science explanations, exercises, and history:

Royal Veterinary College, Structure and Motion Lab (Gallery including animations of spring-mass locomotion; bouncing/running gait)
Froude Number calculator

Media coverage:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030331/030331-6.html
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/april9/elephants-49.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/13/PN28384.DTL (also an excellent story)
National Geographic: Dinosaur Biology (print version, March 2003 has full text)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993583
http://animal.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030407/elephant.html
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2496323
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/science/life/08ELEP.html?ex=1050379200&en=9cad829dba01f639&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/03/31/daily40.html
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article1392.html
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20030402.095343&time=11 49 PST&year=2003&public=1
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20030402_467.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s822427.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030404071405.htm
http://toddshow.org/log/dailylistings/05212003.asp (NPR radio interview)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/04/1048962935964.html
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=390122003
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/03/weleph03.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/03/ixworld.html
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/04/03/elephants030403
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/04/1048962933926.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,928217,00.html
http://www.0xdeadbeef.org/blog/ankh/
http://www.biopsychology.com/
http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/315290%7Coddlyenough%7C04-03-2003::07:44%7Creuters.html
http://www.sciscape.org/news_detail.php?news_id=1054
http://sh1.antville.org/stories/338807/
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/040603/new_.shtml
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=iol1049462036133E421&set_id=1
http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/departments/input_output/input_out.html
http://science.orf.at/science/news/72028

Follow-up coverage after 2003:

BBSRC grant agency press release, August 2006

The Times (London)

BBC World "Science in Action" radio programme, 18 August 2006 (fun interview)

Livescience.com

ZDNet

TheAllINeed.com

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