Animal's Locomotion

There are lots of types of very intelligent animals, and each one has different capacities, wich means that it's locomotion works different. These are some examples:
Vampire Bat:
1. It sucks blood
  1. Possesses infallible echolocation skills
    1. Flies better than stealth bombers
      1. It can walk and run
        Bats are the only mammals that can fly
Flying squirrels
1. Squirrels have astonishing agility
  1. They can run wires, hop branches and dangle from swinging tree limbs
    1. Can also walk upside down
      1. Flying squirrels can “fly” up to several feet thanks to specialized built-in wing suits of skin
Octopus
1. They moves via jet propulsion
  1. It can propel itself and move around via its strength tentacles
    1. Its tentacles come complete with suckers
      1. It can also change color, shape, size
        It use shoot blinding ink to make a fast escape
Bears Girafes and Camels,
2. They have a different gait and stride than most animals
  1. They move the same two legs on each side in alternate steps, 1, 3, 2, 4
    1. (rather than the 1, 4, 2, 3 pattern of most mammals)
    2. It seems like an an awkward pace, but they can run very swiftly
Humans
1. Humans are rare among mammals because we are bipedal (walk upright on our two feet)
  1. Bipedalism it’s a specialized adaptation
    1. It's difficult compared to walking on all fours
      1. Simians
        Bidepial
        Kangaroos
        Some Rodents
        They hop rather tan walk
        We, humans, don’t hop because it would consume too many calories

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