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digitigrade

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digitigrade
a form of locomotion in which the animal walks only on its digits, e.g. dogs, contrasted with plantigrade, in which the animal walks on its metatarsi, metacarpi, e.g. bears, humans.
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Clark and his coworkers observed that the joint between the toes and foot could not have flexed enough to make possible the digitigrade movement, or toe-walking, seen in birds and some dinosaurs.
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in the development of walking, for example, Forssberg(3) argues that digitigrade walking gives way to plantigrade walking as higher centers of the CNS mature.
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[57] The early foot contact pattern seen in infancy resembles a digitigrade pattern.
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