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Much of the study is an application of (either Air or Water ). The topic splits into eight disjoint categories:

# Animal Locomotion On Land ( Walking and Running )
# Animal Locomotion In Air ( Bird Flight )
# Animal Locomotion In Water ( Swimming including Fish and Duck s)
# Animal Locomotion On The Surface Layer (small animals relying on Surface Tension such as the Water Strider )
# Animal Locomotion By Water-walkers (the Common Basilisk ).
# Animal Locomotion In The Canopy
# Animal Locomotion Through The Ground ('swimming' in sand or mud)
# Animal Locomtoion On The Sea Floor

The distinction between the second and third topics is that in the third, the animal does not need to expend energy to defeat Gravity ; in or on the water, Buoyancy counteracts the animal's Weight .

See
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/12/locomotiontheory.html