Adjective
digitigrade- (of an animal) walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised
Noun
digitigrade- A digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat, walks on their toes.
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...While humans usually walk with the sole of their feet on the ground, i.e. plantigrade locomotion, digitigrade animals walk on their distal and intermediate phalanges. Digitigrade locomotion is responsible for the distinctive hooked shape of dog legs. Read full entry
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- 1.Digitigrade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, ... Digitigrade · Plantigrade · Ungulate · Uniped · Biped · Triped · Quadruped · Facultative biped ...
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- 2.digitigrade: Definition from Answers.com
- digitigrade ( ) adj. Relating to an animal, such as a horse, cat, or dog, whose weight is borne on the toes ... Digitigrade · Plantigrade · Ungulate · Uniped ...
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Is digitigrade locomotion or digitigrade involves placing
the palm/sole of the hand/foot
on the ground while walking
quadrupedally.
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digiigarde locomotion is when an animal walks on it toes or digits eg. cats wolf but not humans knuckle walking is when an animal walks on all fours with the fingers of their forelimbs rolled into the hand, putting pressure on their knuckles. Gorillas can move at great speeds using this method. eg gorillas and chimpanzees. Giant anteaters and platypus are also knuckle-walkers Plesiomorphy: An ancestral or primitive character knuckle walking was used in prehistoriv times - The chalicotheres were large prehistoric knuckle-walkers that looked something like at cross between a rhino and a gorilla. Knuckle-walking tends to evolve when the fingers of the forelimb are specialised for tasks other than locomotion on the ground. In the gorilla the fingers are used for the manipulation of food, and in chimpanzees for the manipulation of food and for climbing. In anteaters and pangolins the fingers have large claws for opening the mounds of social insects. Platypus fingers are extensively webbed for swimming not all hominoids are knuckle walkers |
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what made the digitigrade leg what made the digitigrade leg
a favorable trate in animals
every ware
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It says it in the first paragraphs here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D igitigrade it helps if trait=trate and everywhere = every ware and then we have to wonder why this is in sculpture |
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what type of foot posture do or do they all have different
ones , even plantigrade?
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its hard to assign a foot posture to a bird, unless it is a bird that doesnt fly such as a penguin or emu. they have plantigrade foot posture. I do believe other birds are technically plantigrade, but are usually assigned names based on the type of foot. Ie, a raptor would have raptorial feet, a duck palmate, and so on. I would assume bats are the same,but since they dont use their feet for locomotion, its a hard thing to define. good question |
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