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• Having said that, Vizcaíno et al. (1999) and Vizcaíno & Milne (2002) looked at function in armadillo limbs and used an Index of Fossorial Ability (IFA, calculated by dividing olecranon length by the difference between ulnar length and olecranon length) to compare the fossorial ability of the different armadillos. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• In seeking food and avoiding enemies in different habitats the limbs and feet radiate in four diverse directions; they either become fossorial or adapted to digging habits, natatorial or adapted to amphibious and finally to aquatic habits, cursorial or adapted to swift-moving, terrestrial progression, arboreal or adapted to tree life. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• 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 SIZE.--Head and body 16 inches; tail 7-1/2 inches, 9 inches, including hair The habits of this animal are nocturnal. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• A fossorial wasp of the family of Sphegidoe_,[1] which is distinguished by its metallic lustre, enters by the open windows, and disarms irritation at its movements by admiration of the graceful industry with which it stops up the keyholes and similar apertures with clay in order to build in them a cell, into which it thrusts the pupa of some other insect, within whose body it has previously introduced its own eggs; and, enclosing the whole with moistened earth, the young parasite, after undergoing its transformations, gnaws its way into light, and emerges a four-winged fly. —  Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
• A fossorial wasp of the family of Sphegidц_,[1] which is distinguished by its metallic lustre, enters by the open windows, and converts irritation at its movements into admiration of the graceful industry with which it stops up the keyholes and similar apertures with clay in order to build in them a cell. —  Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

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