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I am considering a mid to large sized creature, the loping quhambo. Maybe eight to ten palms at the whithers and maybe five stone in weight. It is a proboscidean mammal of some sort, though quite possibly not related to the oliphant.

I am curious about quadrupedal mammalian gaits. I know there are different kinds of gait, varying with speed and that there are different "foot placements" involved. Specifically, I'm interested in a 6:2 ratio -- for every six steps the relatively short hind legs make, the rather longer forelegs take only two. This is why they're called loping.

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For ordinary loping along at various speeds, is this gait realistic / plausible with respect to known mammalian locomotion patterns. If so, does any living or extinct animal walk like this?

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