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• Foals

  Foals admitted to the RVC Equine's dedicated neonatal intensive care unit are looked after 24/7 by our expert veterinary and nursing team

• Gait Analysis

  The RVC's Equine Referral Hospital is in the unique position to offer quantitative gait analysis with one of the most advanced sensor based gait analysis systems currently available.

• Lameness

  The recognition, localisation and treatment of lameness can be challenging. Veterinary specialists at RVC Equine are experienced and renowned for the work-up of complex lameness cases and cases of poor performance.

• Dragonflies and damselflies

  

  This week, Dr Richard Bomphrey and his colleagues from Japan, Sweden and the USA have published a comprehensive account of how dragonflies and damselflies take to the air. These incredible animals, from the order Odonata, have changed little since …

   19 Aug 2016

  This week, Dr Richard Bomphrey and his colleagues from Japan, Sweden and the USA have published a …

• How bats fly

  

  Dr Tatjana Hubel and her colleagues from Brown University and Winston Salem State University in the USA have published their work about the flight performance of insectivorous bats in a special flight edition of Philosophical Transactions of the …

   19 Aug 2016

  Dr Tatjana Hubel and her colleagues from Brown University and Winston Salem State University in the …

• Programme and Assessment structure

  Programme structure The programme comprises of a bridging module, three core professional modules and three elective clinical modules. Module (Level) Credits Pre-requisite Bridging module —Contemporary study skills – 7 weeks (L6) 10 …

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• Pairing and sharing in V formation flight

  

  New publication reveals how birds can't 'cheat' in V formation flight by spending all their time at the back. Research published in Nature last year by the RVC Structure and Motion Lab showed that when birds are flying in a V formation, energy …

   03 Feb 2015

• Do owls have superpowers?

  

  Dr Jim Usherwood features on the BBC Two wildlife series Natural World, exploring "Super Powered Owls". Dr Usherwood, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the RVC, investigates the mechanics of terrestrial and aerial locomotion. He appears …

   13 Mar 2015

• There's an elephant in the camp!

  

  A current PhD student in the RVC's Structure and Motion Lab discusses her experiences and the highlights of collecting data in the field

   13 Apr 2015

• Professor R. McNeill Alexander receives honorary degree

  

  The Royal Veterinary College has awarded Professor R. McNeill Alexander an honorary degree for his contributions to biomechanics at the at the 2015 graduation ceremony.  Unfortunately, Professor Alexander could not attend the ceremony to collect …

   23 Jul 2015