A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, or toes. Digitigrades include walking birds (what many assume to be bird knees are actually ankles), cats, dogs, and many other mammals, but not plantigrades or unguligrades. Digitigrades generally move more quickly and quietly than other animals. There are anatomical differences betwe...
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walking on the toes alone
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• (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot. • (a.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
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Walking on tip toes, as seen in cats.
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Dinosaurs walked on their toes; the scientific term for this is digitigrade. Only a small part of the foot touches the ground and the animal can move very quickly. Many predators are digitigrade. Other animals that are digitigrade include dogs, cats, and birds. There is a pad of tissue on the back of the feet on these animals that acts like a shock...
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describes a foot posture where the heel and instep are raised so only the digits touch the ground. Common in predators like cats and dogs, enabling them to move quietly. Plantigrade and Unguligrade are other postures.
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Walking on the toes, or digits (such as elephants and rhinos).
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Dig'i·ti·grade adjective [ Latin
digitus finger, toe +
gradi to step, walk: confer French
digitigrade .]
(Zoology) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from
plantigrade .
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adj] - (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised
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digitigrade 1. Walking on the toes or digits, as most quadruped mammals. 2. Relating to an animal; such as, a horse, a cat, or a dog, whose weight is borne on the toes. 3. Walking on the digits, with metacarpal and metatarsal bones clear of the ground, as do dogs and cats.
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adjective (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
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walking so that the toes touch the ground and the heel is raised. Some animals that use this form of locomotion include wolves, deer, horses and cats.
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walking on the toes, as most quadruped mammals.
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