The Company of Biologists

Table 1.

Occurence of laps, crosscuts and corner shortcuts

	Males											Females		Gender effect (t₁₀; P) 0.82; 0.43
Total distance (m)	202	245	350	142	246	347	195	220	184	369	170	170		Gender effect (t₁₀; P) 0.82; 0.43
Total number of laps	12	15	32	5	16	29	5	9	5	16	6	4	2.32; 0.043
Crosscuts through the centre
First lap with a crosscut	0	4	2	3	1	7	0	0	2	3	0	0
Total number of crosscuts	0	9	3	5	12	37	0	0	2	10	0	0
Number of crosscuts per lap^{^*}	–	0.75	0.09	1.7	0.75	1.6	–	–	0.5	0.71	–	–
Corner shortcuts: the number of visits to a corner until a shortcut first occurred
Start corner	–	5	6	5	4	4	10	7	5	5	–	2
Second corner	6	2	5	6	2	7	4	14	–	5	9	17
Third corner	2	15	30	4	4	3	14	6	–	18	19	5
Fourth corner	3	4	11	6	5	2	5	–	–	4	10	9

	Males											Females		Gender effect (t₁₀; P) 0.82; 0.43
Total distance (m)	202	245	350	142	246	347	195	220	184	369	170	170		Gender effect (t₁₀; P) 0.82; 0.43
Total number of laps	12	15	32	5	16	29	5	9	5	16	6	4	2.32; 0.043
Crosscuts through the centre
First lap with a crosscut	0	4	2	3	1	7	0	0	2	3	0	0
Total number of crosscuts	0	9	3	5	12	37	0	0	2	10	0	0
Number of crosscuts per lap^{^*}	–	0.75	0.09	1.7	0.75	1.6	–	–	0.5	0.71	–	–
Corner shortcuts: the number of visits to a corner until a shortcut first occurred
Start corner	–	5	6	5	4	4	10	7	5	5	–	2
Second corner	6	2	5	6	2	7	4	14	–	5	9	17
Third corner	2	15	30	4	4	3	14	6	–	18	19	5
Fourth corner	3	4	11	6	5	2	5	–	–	4	10	9

On average, a corner shortcut occurred at the eighth visit to that corner

Significant differences are shown in bold

Number of crosscuts per lap was calculated by dividing the number of crosscuts by the number of laps taken once the first crosscut was performed