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Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type (vol 147, 102865, 2020) (2023)
Journal Article
Panagiotopoulou, O., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Abraha, H., Taylor, A., Wilshin, S., Dechow, P., & Ross, C. (2023). Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type (vol 147, 102865, 2020). Journal of Human Evolution, 179, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103367

Seeing with sound; surface detection and avoidance by sensing self-generated noise (2023)
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Wilshin, S., Amos, S., & Bomphrey, R. (2023). Seeing with sound; surface detection and avoidance by sensing self-generated noise. International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 15, 175682932211483. https://doi.org/10.1177/17568293221148377

Here, we demonstrate obstacle and secondary drone avoidance capability by quadcopter drones that can perceive and react to modulation of their self-generated acoustic environment when in proximity to surfaces. A ground truth for the interpretation of... Read More about Seeing with sound; surface detection and avoidance by sensing self-generated noise.

Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type (2020)
Journal Article
Panagiotopoulou, O., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Mehari Abraha, H., Taylor, A. B., Wilshin, S., Dechow, P. C., & Ross, C. F. (2020). Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type. Journal of Human Evolution, 147, 102865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102865

Mandible morphology has yet to yield definitive information on primate diet, probably because of poor understanding of mandibular loading and strain regimes, and overreliance on simple beam models of mandibular mechanics. We used a finite element mod... Read More about Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type.

Limping following limb loss increases locomotor stability (2018)
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Wilshin, S., Shamble, P. S., Hovey, K. J., Harris, R., Spence, A. J., & Hsieh, S. T. (2018). Limping following limb loss increases locomotor stability. Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.174268

Although many arthropods have the ability to voluntarily lose limbs, how these animals rapidly adapt to such an extreme perturbation remains poorly understood. It is thought that moving with certain gaits can enable efficient, stable locomotion; howe... Read More about Limping following limb loss increases locomotor stability.

Uncovering the structure of the mouse gait controller: mice respond to substrate perturbations with adaptations in gait on a continuum between trot and bound (2018)
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Vahedipour, A., Haji Maghsoudi, O., Wilshin, S., Shamble, P., Robertson, B., & Spence, A. (2018). Uncovering the structure of the mouse gait controller: mice respond to substrate perturbations with adaptations in gait on a continuum between trot and bound. Journal of Biomechanics, 78(10), 77-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.07.020

Biomechanics of predator–prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala (2018)
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Wilson, A. M., Hubel, T. Y., Wilshin, S. D., Lowe, J. C., Lorenc, M., Dewhirst, O. P., …West, T. G. (2018). Biomechanics of predator–prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala. Nature, 554(7691), 183+. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25479

The fastest and most manoeuvrable terrestrial animals are found in savannah habitats, where predators chase and capture running prey. Hunt outcome and success rate are critical to survival, so both predator and prey should evolve to be faster and/or... Read More about Biomechanics of predator–prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala.

Morphology and the gradient of a symmetric potential predicts gait transitions of dogs (2017)
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Wilshin, S. D., Haynes, G. C., Porteous, J., Koditschek, D., Revzen, S., & Spence, A. J. (2017). Morphology and the gradient of a symmetric potential predicts gait transitions of dogs. Biological Cybernetics, 111(3-4), 269-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-017-0721-2

Gaits and gait transitions play a central role in the movement of animals. Symmetry is thought to govern the structure of the nervous system, and constrain the limb motions of quadrupeds. We quantify the symmetry of dog gaits with respect to combinat... Read More about Morphology and the gradient of a symmetric potential predicts gait transitions of dogs.

Selfish-herd behaviour of sheep under threat
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King, A. J., Wilson, A. M., Wilshin, S. D., Lowe, J., Haddadi, H., Hailes, S., & Morton, A. J. Selfish-herd behaviour of sheep under threat. Current Biology, 22(14), R561-R562