Tim Griffin Quotes


We found that waddling didn't actually require increased work. Instead, walking is costly for penguins because they have such short limbs, which requires their legs to generate muscular force very rapidly. - Tim Griffin



We did have one to two families displaced, and the Red Cross was able to put them up at the Howard Johnson Hotel in North Bergen. - Tim Griffin



We can't look at just the side-to-side movement... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy. - Tim Griffin