| digitigrade |
digitigrade mammal: an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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| digitigrade |
walking so that the weight of the body is on the toes and the back of the foot is raised; red fox and bobcat are examples of digitigrades
Ãâó: www.kentuckyawake.org/templates/glossary/
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| digitigrade |
Walking on the digits, with the metatarsals and metacarpals elevated (eg grey wolf)
Ãâó: www.uoguelph.ca/~mammals/Mammalogy_2005_glossary.h...
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| digitigrade |
walking on tips of carpals/tarsals, metacarpals/metatarsals, and phalanges.
Ãâó: www.humboldt.edu/~cmc43/glossary.htm
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| digitigrade |
Refers to walking on the digits only.
Ãâó: digsfossils.com/fossils/footprints_glossary.html
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