The feet are digitigrade and provided with long pointed claws.
The pes isdigitigrade or plantigrade, and has three, rarely four, digits.
Limbs of moderate length, and partially digitigrade in walking.
It was formerly classed with the racoons, which it superficially resembles; and, as Jerdon remarks, it may be considered as a sort of link between the plantigrade and digitigrade carnivora.
It is of importance for us to note that this transition from the original plantigrade to the more recent digitigrade type, has been carried out on two slightly different plans in two different lines of mammalian descent.
The next figures display a series of limbs, showing the progressive passage of a completely plantigrade into a highly digitigrade type--the curved lines of connexion serving to indicate the homologous bones (Figs.
But the digitigrade modification necessitated a change of structural plan, to the extent of raising the wrist and ankle joints off the ground, so as to make the quadruped walk on its fingers and toes.
It was at one time held that the animal was digitigrade as to the fore-feet and plantigrade as to the hind-feet.
This genus is very markedly digitigrade when running.
The mode of progression may be digitigrade or plantigrade, and the intermediate semidigitigrade mode of walking also occurs.
The much persecuted otter presents himself to our notice among the worm-bodied, digitigrade animals.
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