- In
terrestrial animals,
plantigrade locomotion means walking with the toes and
metatarsals flat on the ground. It is one of
three forms of locomotion...
-
knees are
actually ankles), cats, dogs, and many
other mammals, but not
plantigrades (such as humans) or
unguligrades (such as horses).
Digitigrades generally...
-
animals that walk on the
soles of
their feet, are
described as
being plantigrade;
unguligrade animals are
those that walk on
hooves at the tips of their...
-
bodies with
stocky legs, long snouts,
small rounded ears,
shaggy hair,
plantigrade paws with five
nonretractile claws, and
short tails.
While the polar...
- was
first shown in
Paris on the
Exposition Universelle (1878) as "The
Plantigrade Machine". The
Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is a
cognate linkage of the Chebyshev...
- for flight. Most birds,
except loons and grebes, are digitigrade, not
plantigrade. Also,
chicks in the nest can use the
entire foot (toes and tarsometatarsus)...
- step over obstacles. An
early design for a leg
mechanism called the
Plantigrade Machine by
Pafnuty Chebyshev was
shown at the
Exposition Universelle...
- amphibians, the
reptiles and some
mammals such as
humans and bears—are
plantigrade,
walking on the
whole of the
underside of the foot. Many mammals, such...
- terrestrial, arboreal, and aquatic/semi-aquatic. They
exhibit digitigrade or
plantigrade locomotion, with five toes on each foot,
enabling them to move in different...
- the
canines large, and the
molars are tricuspid.
Didelphimorphs have a
plantigrade stance (feet flat on the ground) and the hind feet have an opposable...
