Ministry Of Silly Walks: Artists Get Animals’ Legs Wrong

“The way four-legged animals walk has been well known since the 1880s, when Eadweard Muybridge’s motion-capture photographs revealed the sequence of leg movements.” Many artists, evidently, have not been taking note. “After analyzing more than 300 depictions of walking animals in museums, veterinary books and toy models, the researchers report that in almost half of them the leg positions are wrong.”