At some point in our evolution, humans gave up walking on four limbs, yet all of our ape cousins continue sauntering on four, resorting occasionally to two. Peter Aerts from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, is curious about how primates walk. When his postdoctoral student, Kristiaan D’Août, joined Gilles Berillon at the Primatology Station of the CNRS, France, to learn about how baboons move, the trio was surprised that the animals could suddenly rear up and begin walking on two limbs without breaking their stride.
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Source: Phys.org