plantigrade

• His hind-feet are plantigrade, that is, they rest upon the ground from heel to toe; and his back curves like the segment of a circle. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
• In each jaw on each side three incisors, one canine (those in the upper jaw double-fanged) and seven premolars and molars; feet five-toed, plantigrade, armed with strong claws. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• III. CYNOIDEA I may here remark that the Insectivora are in most cases plantigrade, therefore the term is not an apposite one as applied to the bear and bear-like animals only, but in treating of them under the term Arctoidea we may divide them again into Plantigrades and Sub-plantigrades ARCTOIDEA PLANTIGRADA URSIDAE The bears differ from the dogs and cats widely in form and manner, and diet. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• They are plantigrade, and are without a caecum or blind gut; the skull, however it may approach to a viverrine or feline shape, has still marked arctoid characteristics. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• 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

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