Digitigrade and Plantigrade

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Digitigrade

Digitigrade noun - An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses.
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Plantigrade is an antonym for digitigrade.

Plantigrade

Plantigrade adjective - Of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do.
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Digitigrade is an antonym for plantigrade.
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  • Porky Pig averts this trope in the first season of The Looney Tunes Show by having the unguligrade stance that real pigs have, but he usually appears more digitigrade or plantigrade.
    Source: Humanlike Foot Anatomy / Western Animation
  • Western Animation / Looney Tunes Porky Pig averts this trope in The Looney Tunes Show by having the unguligrade stance that real pigs have, but he usually appears more digitigrade or plantigrade.
    Source: Western Animation / Looney Tunes
  • Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism They can have either digitigrade or plantigrade feet, and they sometimes have human-like breasts.
    Source: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
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