Climbing is a walk in the park for small primates

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13911

New research reveals that small primates require the same amount of energy to climb as they do to walk.

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• primate
• lemur
• loris
• walk
• climb
• energy
• oxygen
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[GFl1ve]

I read primates as pirates at first. xD

[joebonk]

i lol'ed

[Flamingkat]

This sounds like your nit picking.

[lukeyblunt]

Apparently i Climbed before i walked.

im a monkehh !!

[ccaptorchen]

walk horizontally the same distance. I'm sure you can get the detail data if you want to request for it. scientist are expected to know the scientific method, meaning a control sample to compare. would be pointless if its walking different distance then climbing, or to "walk up a tree"

[ccaptorchen]

that is true but the physics behind a smaller weight climbing tree requires less energy then a heavier weight should stay relatively the same. prehistoric or not. that statement is referring to primates that have evolved the similar features of the tested animal ( says the vid info link)

[joebbi]

Same energy as to walk... Walk where? To walk up the tree? To walk the same distance? What?

[Almo1985]

I think it is a possum

[dafttool]

The finding is that climbing doesn't demand more energy than walking, but I don't think that necessarily disturbs the previous thinking that climbing had an energetic cost in earlier evolutionary animals. This study was done on modern animals with modern arboreal adaptations, not prehistoric ones with prehistoric terrestrial adaptations. It's a leap of logic/speculation to make such sweeping statements about creatures not examined in this study.

[catapaultpenguin]

I've heard kangaroo's use more energy to walk than to run

[TECHKLEC]

I think it's a lemur.