Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying With a dissertation on aëronautics

"Animal Locomotion; or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying" by James Bell Pettigrew is a scientific book from the 1800s that looks at how animals move. It explains the science behind how different creatures walk, swim, and fly. The book shows how movement is important for animals to survive. Pettigrew writes about how movement is a basic part of nature and connects animal motion to other things in the world. The beginning of the book captures how animal movement it beautiful and complicated, which leads into a closer study of how animals move on land, in water, and in the air.