digitigrade in a sentence
Examples
- Unlike some popularly depicted anthropomorphic animals, Kzinti stand on two legs like humans do; they do not have digitigrade or " backward-bending " legs.
- Like running members of the even-toed ungulates, mesonychids ( " Pachyaena ", for example ) walked on their digits ( digitigrade locomotion ).
- They had the appearance of large, digitigrade, tapir-like mammals with relatively short, slender limbs and five-toed feet with broad, flat phalanges.
- Significant modifications include the evolution of tooth batteries, a ligament-bound metacarpus and a digitigrade hand posture . " Tenontosaurus " is the most basal iguanodontian.
- The Vulpine are a race resembling anthropomorphic foxes, averaging about six inches shorter than humans, with relatively short legs and digitigrade feet, long torsos, and bushy tails.
- In digitigrade and unguligrade animals, the metacarpals are greatly extended and strengthened, forming an additional segment to the limb, a feature that typically enhances the animal's speed.
- "Plateosaurus " shows a number of cursorial adaptations, including an erect hind limb posture, a relatively long lower leg, an elongated metatarsus and a digitigrade foot posture.
- The AT-ST is a two-legged digitigrade walker introduced in " The Empire Strikes Back " and featured extensively in " Return of the Jedi ".
- Based on the instructions Emmerich gave him, Tatopoulos reimagined it as a lean, digitigrade bipedal iguana that stood with its back and tail parallel to the ground, rendered via computer animation.
- Because of the diversity of the genera, it is difficult to illustrate a specific type . " Homotherium " was once thought to be plantigrade, but was proven to be digitigrade.