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A visual demonstration of a rosy-faced lovebird climbing with a tripedal gait on a vertically oriented runway.

The dual function of prokinesis in the feeding and locomotor systems of parrots

Melody W. Young, Alec T. Wilken, Armita R. Manafzadeh, Alissa F. Schurr, Aaron Bastian, Edwin Dickinson, and Michael C. Granatosky

Journal of Experimental Biology 2023. 226:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.246659

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