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Symbiotic BioInspired Robotics and Evolutionary Biology
Jerboas
Entropy
https://www.livescience.com/60342-jerboas-erratic-jumps-evade-predators.html
EEB: Hop, skip, run, leap: Unpredictability boosts survival for bipedal desert rodents September 5, 2017
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTfHhOVwYo
Engineering: From rodent to robot September 5, 2017
Nature ecology and evolution Blog: https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/62919-talia-y-moore/posts/20011-rodent-locomotion-is-more-complex-than-we-thought
Natural History Magazine "Jumping to Conclusions" Vol 123 No 10, Dec 2015/Jan2016
Current Biology Dispatch "Evolution: Two (Very Long) Legs to Stand On" November 2, 2015
Featured in the Hindu Business Times "The Significant Other: The realization that animals behave very differently in the lab and in the wild is not as trivial as it may seem" October 23, 2015
"Evolution of Kangaroo-like Jerboas Sheds Light on Limb Development" October 8, 2015
Thesis video featured in r/aww, September 29, 2015
The Weather Channel "Crazimals: Rodent moves like you've never seen" September 25, 2015
Featured in Wired "Absurd Creature of the Week: This tiny adorable critter is half kangaroo half velociraptor" September 19, 2015
Reposted by Rachel Maddow
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Jerboa video on display at Chicago Field Museum. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics exhibit. March 12, 2014 to January 4, 2015.
National Geographic "Weird and Wild: 5 Jerboa Facts: Explaining Cute Jumping Rodent" February 11, 2014
Polit.RU ProScience "Тушканчики уживаются с другими пустынными грызунами благодаря своей непредсказуемости (The Jerboa gets along with other desert rodents because of its unpredictability)" July 16, 2013
"Bipedal Rodents Survive In The Desert With A Hop, Skip And A Jump" July 2013
https://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20130707/2222631.html
Discovery Daily Planet "Riskin's Business: Jerboa Jumps" September 11, 2012. (Twitter)
The Harvard Crimson "Griffin Investigates Biomechanics of Furry Jerboas" Feb 24, 2012
Cockroaches
NSF Science Now. March 22, 2013
Lizards
Nature: News & Views January 2012 "Biomechanics: Leaping lizards and dinosaurs"
"Leaping Lizards and Dinosaurs Inspire Robot Design" January 2012
KQED Quest "Bio-Inspiration: Nature as Muse" October 21, 2008.