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For over 30 years, Terrie Williams has been studying exercise physiology in wild animals: African lions and wild dogs, dolphins and whales, coyotes and mountain lions, as well as a few human athletes. She has put mountain lions on treadmills and strapped heart-rate monitors onto big-wave surfers at Mavericks.
These studies have given Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of California, Santa Cruz, a unique perspective on exercise and health, which she presents in an article titled "The Healthy Heart: Lessons from Nature's Elite Athletes," published in the September issue of the journal Physiology.Image credit: David Williams
