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Observed biological gait features, including those of young animals and the counterintuitive ones, are shown to conform, qualitatively, to these principles, suggesting that their gaits may be explained by optimality with respect to the total of fluid and muscle damping power losses, with the latter occupying a small percentage. In addition, the prevailing feature of caudally increased body curvature may be a result of an adjustment to the gait due to the tapered body geometry and\/or oncoming fluid vortices. Biological gaits could thus be understood as a composition of aforementioned gait features. Also explained by optimal gaits are the negative correlation between the Strouhal number and the SL, and the wider range of the Strouhal number of anguilliform swimming (0.31\u20130.93) than that of carangiform swimming (0.2\u20130.4). The neural signals for muscle activation are also calculated from the optimal gaits to predict control strategies underlying the observed gaits. 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