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Digitigrade - Wikipedia
A digitigrade animal is one that stands or walks with its toes (phalanges) on the ground, and the rest of its foot lifted.
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DIGITIGRADE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DIGITIGRADE is walking on the digits with the posterior of the foot more or less raised. How to use digitigrade in a sentence.
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Why the majority of modern predators are digitigrade? : r/evolution
TIL that most animals are digitigrade, i.e., they walk on their digits or toes. Birds, cats, dogs etc are examples and what most people think ...
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digitigrade
digitigrade, a. and n. Zool. (ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌgreɪd) [a. F. digitigrade, in mod.L. digitigrada (Cuvier 1817), f. L. digit-us (digit) + -gradus, going, walking.] A. adj. Walking on the toes; spec. in Zool. belonging to the tribe Digitigrada of Carnivora (in Cuvier's classification); also said of the feet, o...
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What Is a Digitigrade? - WorldAtlas
Digitigrades is one of the classifications of animals based on locomotion. Digitigrades walk on their toes. Learn more about digitigrade and ...
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Digitigrade posture | locomotion - Britannica
Digitigrade, in which only the phalanges (toes and fingers) touch the ground, while the ankle and wrist are elevated (eg, dog and cat), and (3) unguligrade.
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Understanding the leg differences in mammals - YouTube
Becoming a better artist sometimes means learning anatomy. Let's look at the three leg types in mammals: plantigrade, digitigrade, ...
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Digitigrade Troubles - fantasy-anatomy-analyst - Tumblr
Aside from cats, most digitigrade legs have much shorter femurs, and the angles are way straighter than you might assume (especially on horses). As well as that ...
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Digitigrade locomotion – Lancaster Glossary of Child Development
Upright locomotion with the toes at the end of the stance phase being in contact with the floor and the rest of the foot elevated.
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Are there any animals with both plantigrade and digitigrade feet, or ...
Digitigrade animals walk on the tips of their toes, whereas plantigrade animals walk on the soles of their feet. With some animals, such as the ...
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unguligrade
ˈunguligrade, a. Zool. [ad. mod.L. unguligradus, f. L. ungula claw + -gradus walking. Cf. F. ongulograde.] Walking on the tips of the digits.1869 Huxley Introd. Classif. 146 Unguligrade, those animals which walk on the tips of the digits only, which are always hoofed. 1881 Mivart Cat 472 The Carnivo...
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Dinaelurus
Martin hypothesizes that it had digitigrade feet.
Behavior
It is believed that Dinaelurus was a cursorial predator, meaning it ran down its prey.
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phalangigrade
phaˈlangigrade, a. Zool. [ad. mod.L. Phalangigrad-us, f. as prec. + L. gradus step; cf. digitigrade, plantigrade.] Walking on the phalanges; belonging to the (now disused) division Phalangigrada, comprising the camel and llama.1891 Flower & Lydekker Mammals ii. 50 Two forms, to which the terms ‘phal...
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Protolipterna
Its legs, elongated and slender, suggest a digitigrade gait, unlike its contemporaries, such as Colbertia, which were plantigrades. Paleoecology
Studies of the postcranial skeleton of Protolipterna allows to hypothesize that this animal, with its long digitigrade legs, was able to
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falculate
falculate, a. (ˈfælkjʊleɪt) [f. L. falcula, dim. of falc-, falx sickle + -ate.] Resembling a little sickle in form, small and curved.1847 Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 329/1 Others [of the Marsupials] are digitigrade with falculate claws.
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