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Figure 4d displays the proportion of mammalian locomotion adaptations found in many modern habitats around the world compared to the Upper Ndolanya Beds on the right-hand side of the graph.

One reason for their success is the way they move. Mammals as a group use every possible form of locomotion. Terrestrial species walk, run, jump, climb, hop, swing, dig, and burrow. Aquatic ones ...