To the first of these divisions the term Plantigrade has been applied.
They are not bears in any sense of the word: having scarce any other resemblance to the noble Bruin than their plantigrade feet.
His capacity of raising himself erect gives him this advantage; and from his great plantigrade posterior paws, combined with his powerful muscular legs, he can pitch forward with a velocity surprising as it is unexpected.
There are some other plantigrade animals besides bears?
The femur has a third trochanter, and the feet resemble those of bears in being plantigrade and having pointed ungual phalanges, differing, however, in having the scaphoid and lunar distinct.
All the limbs areplantigrade and pentedactylate, and the digits of the pes are clawed.
In the Tillodontia the manus isplantigrade and has pointed ungual phalanges, in this respect approaching the Carnivora.
The limbs are small in proportion to the size of the body, and are adapted for swimming or for shuffling along the ground; they are plantigrade and the bones are all solid.
The limbs are plantigrade or subplantigrade, and are generally pentedactylate.
Like the perissodactyls, they are descended from the primitive five-toed plantigrade mammals of the lowest Eocene.
From these primitive flesh eaters, with small and simple brains, numerous small teeth, and plantigrade tread, the different families of the carnivores of the present have slowly evolved.
The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry.
There could be no doubt of this, for there were the prints of the long plantigrade feet, the tubercules of the toes, and the holes where the curving claws had sunk several inches into the mud.
He runs awkwardly on his plantigrade feet; but, although from his great length and size he appears to move but slowly, it is not so.
Defn: A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
Now, both of these orders came by differentiation, far back in the Eocene Tertiary, from a five-toed plantigrade ancestor.
Two other plantigrade genera, Procyon and Gulo, though often kept tame in Paraguay, never breed there.
The Carnivora, with the exception of the Plantigrade division, generally breed (though with capricious exceptions) almost as freely as ruminants.
The Plantigrade Carnivora breed under confinement much less freely, without our being able to assign any reason, than other members of the group.
We have first the plantigrade and digitigrade modifications already mentioned (pp.
In the pentadactyl plantigrade foot of the early mammals, the first digit, being the shortest, was the first to leave the ground, to dwindle, and finally to disappear.
Of these the plantigrade walking entailed least change, because most resembling the ancestral or lizard-like mode of progression.
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 plantigrade pentadactyl foot of the primitive Ungulate--and even the perissodactyl foot that succeeded it--both belong to the past humid period of the world's history.
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.
The porcupines are large, plantigrade rodents notable for the mixture of quill-like spines with the hair.
Both divisions have lost the plantigrade (flat-soled) walk of their early ancestors, and now step on the tips of their toes.
The feet are more or less completely plantigrade and five-toed.
The short tail, bulky build, completely plantigrade feet and clumsy gait are features eminently characteristic of the bears.
This feature and its plantigradefoot with naked sole have led to its being regarded as more allied to the Arctoidea.
The closely allied and American genus Daphaenus has also plantigrade feet, and has in its structure many reminiscences of the Creodonts.
This is, of course, associated with a plantigrade and therefore non-arboreal mode of progression.
The walk, although plantigrade in the older types, becomes more and more digitigrade, except in such survivals from antiquity as Hyrax.
Of these the more important are the five digits of both limbs and the plantigrade walk, the presence of clavicles and of a centrale, and the absence of a third trochanter.
The nose of this animal is destitute of a median groove, which is present in the Tayra; the soles of the feet, however, are naked as in that animal, and it is nearly plantigrade in walk.
It was at one time held that the animal was digitigrade as to the fore-feet and plantigrade as to the hind-feet.
The feet, for instance, were plantigrade and five-toed.
These Carnivora are always plantigrade or nearly so.
The detailed likenesses to Man, however, are not to be unduly dwelt upon; for they mainly come from a tendency to assume the plantigrade mode of progression.
The fore-feet of this genus are unknown, but it would seem that it was plantigrade from the evidence of the hind-feet.
The Plantigrade Carnivora breed under confinement much less freely than other Carnivora, although no reason can be assigned for this fact.
The Carnivora, with the exception of the Plantigrade division, breed (though with capricious exceptions) about half as freely as ruminants.
Is he a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium?
Plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasn't any wings and is uncertain.
It is a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasn't any wings and is uncertain.
The plantigradebase of support overlapped by long hair heightens the resemblance.
The animal thus laboriously stalked was large; a hirsute, bearded fellow, with the true plantigrade countenance.
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.
He goes on to add: "The anterior limbs are decidedly fossorial, and the hinder suited for walking in a sub-plantigrade manner; both wholly unfitted for rapatory or scansorial purposes.
It is the Cercoleptes caudivolvus of zoologists, and has been considered by some authors as an intermediate form between the Lemur family of apes and the plantigrade Carnivora, or Bear family.
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