The distinction between paws and feet actually makes sense morphologically. Birds, like cats, are digitigrade— they walk on their toes, not the soles of their feet. In a cat, when we refer to the paw, we are referring to the toes only, which are in contact with the ground.
The bones inside the toes are the phalanges. The bones inside are the metatarsals. A bird is similar. In the second picture in the OP, the paw seems to have a bit of the distal end of the tarso-metatarsus included; the foot clearly includes much more of the tarso-metatarsus i. This reminds me of that factoid that elephants have four knees.
Haha, glad you like them too. Chicken feet are one of my favorites! Back at my last job, a group of us would go out for lunch on Fridays. We had several Cantonese speakers amongst us and there were many good Chinese restaurants nearby Vancouver area.
Thanks for doing the research on this. My husband could eat anything, so had eaten chicken feet in a Chinese restaurant. He used to like pickled pigs feet also. One time, I made him some. I took all the meat off the bone and cartilage, only to learn that gnawing on the cartilage and bones was a major part of the treat. The length of horses' legs also evolved to be longer, allowing them to travel greater distances to seek resources.
Brianna McHorse, the lead author of that study, told The Guardian , "it is very energetically expensive to have a bunch of toes on the end of that leg. If you get rid of them then it costs less, energetically speaking, to swing that leg for every step.
These little lizards can stick to surfaces thanks hundreds of tiny, flexible hairs on their toes called setae , which split into even tinier hairs called spatulae. The setae don't stand straight up at a degree angle; Greaney's study revealed that the hairs bend more horizontally, so that, as Kelly Dickerson wrote in Live Science, " the surface area that the geckos can stick to increases, and the geckos can support more weight.
Terry Philbin, an orthopedic surgeon, why we have them. We walk with a heel-first gait, so the heel absorbs the shock, then the toes help push you off for the next step. The human foot is quite different from that of the chimpanzee, according to Scientific American : "A major difference between the two stems from flexibility.
The former's foot is adapted for a stiff push-off which is necessary for bipedal locomotion. The latter's feet maintain greater flexibility overall and grasping abilities that enable climbing trees as well quadrupedalism on the ground. Short, thick toes are ideal for bipedal walking and running.
According to Steve Gschmeissner , the photographer of a photo of a mosquito's foot that won entry into the Royal Photographic Society's International Images for Science contest in , the scales that cover most of a mosquito's body are especially dense on the leg. He told Live Science that these scales "help protect the limb and enable the mosquito to land on water, where these insects lay their eggs.
Mountain goats have cloven hooves with two spread-out toes that help with balance. Rough pads on the bottom of each toe "provide the grip of a natural climbing shoe," according to National Geographic. Mountain goats' hooves are unique in the world of cloven hooves, wildlife researcher Stefan Pociask told Forbes. What results is a hard covering on top, a soft bottom, and surrounding the soft sole, a hard edge that touches the ground This is what allows them to be rock climbers.
Pociask also explained to Forbes that when a goat places one of its hooves down, "the pad makes first contact over a larger area, and through the sense of touch, this gives the mountain goat more information as to what he is about to step on, and more opportunity to adjust as needed. The large surface area and the sensory feedback allow the goat to adjust to its rocky environment.
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