How To Use hind limb In A Sentence
- They have hind limbs that are at least four times as long as their front legs, and the foot bones are often fused into a single long cannon bone, which gives the animal greater leverage for jumping.
- Some toads have relatively short hind limbs and move forward by a series of hops, while others actually walk.
- When foraging they walk slowly on all four limbs, but when alarmed, hop on their hind limbs with a very bouncy gait. Animals of the World
- This conclusion is supported by the morphology of the fore and hind limbs which are difficult to interpret as load-bearing structures; rather, they appear to be designed for swimming.
- The animal takes off with a push from its large and muscular hind limbs and lands on its hind feet and tail.
- Pocket mice are smaller, and while they are saltatorial, their hind limbs are not as modified as those of kangaroo rats and their locomotion is primarily quadrupedal.
- But the creature's most unusual feature was a set of long, asymmetric feathers with hooked barbs on its hind limbs and forelimbs.
- There was no progression of the hind limb motor function with complete spinal cord injury.
- -- Above sub-rufescent cat-grey, washed with blackish brown on the back and sides and front of face, rufescent yellow beneath; the hind limbs more rufous; fur close, adpressed, rather harsh; tail with a black tip. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
- Leptin increases activity in sympathetic nerves in the kidney, brown adipose tissue, hind limbs, and adrenal medulla.
