The Daily Sabbatical

Somehow this story from the NYT tickled me.  For about a century, because of stop motion photography, it has been known that animals walk starting with the forward motion of their left hind leg, followed by left fore, then right hind, then right foreleg.  (I did not know this, and I have questions about starting on the left–do they always do that?  But nevermind.)  Turns out that in a large selection (around 50%) of cartoons, toys, artistic depictions, and even museum exhibits, the positioning of the legs is wrong.  While I don’t blame the creator of Marmaduke, the Finnish museum has egg on their face.