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Damper for bad vibrations

Nature volume 414, pages 855–857 (2001)Cite this article

Some muscle fibres in the legs of horses seem to be evolutionary leftovers with no function. But in fact they may act to damp damaging vibrations generated in the leg as the horse runs.

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