digitigrade उदाहरण वाक्य

Most birds are digitigrade animals, which means that they walk on their toes, not the entire foot.
The metacarpals of neosauropods are bound together, allowing a digitigrade posture with the manus raised up off the ground.
Kangaroos look quite digitigrade when they are at speed . talk ) 03 : 34, 4 May 2008 ( UTC)
This is different from later barbourofelids, which are believed to have had semi-plantigrade or semi-digitigrade stances.
Many mammals, such as cats and dogs are digitigrade, walking on their toes, the greater stride length allowing more speed.

They also developed a digitigrade posture in the hindlimbs, in which the heel and proximal metatarsals were raised completely off the ground.
Early mesonychids probably walked on the flats of their feet ( plantigrade ), while later ones walked on their toes ( digitigrade ).
However, birds actually have forward-facing knees; they are digitigrade, and what most call the " knee " is actually the ankle.
It commonly grows high on the leg such that in digitigrade species, when the animal is standing, it does not make contact with the ground.
AFAIK, all birds that can walk can walk backwards, while they are digitigrade, there's no physiological reason why they can't.