What is the word that describes creatures that walk on their heels?
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Plantar really means flat, but refers to the flat part of the foot, vs the toes.
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Initially it was for practical reasons.  Heels were added to shoes around the 1500s to keep horsemen's feet from slipping from the stirrups.\n\nEventually, it became fashionable to wear heels.
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Huummmmm.........not sure........platform heels ?
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They're on your feet.
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They have a single "foot" to help move.\nThey move on the same theory as jet propulsion.\nThey can create a web like structure to secure them to rocks, pipes, etc.\nThey have a "tongue" that can absorb their nutrients from the water.\nThey need both males and females to reproduce.  They eject their sperm in the water, the females get fertile this way.\n\nIn other words, for simple "looking" organisms they rock.
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These birds do not all have the same foot posture.  For example ostrich feet sit flat on the ground for walking while songbirds toes are designed to be able to curl and grip branches when they perch.  Birds like eagles have raptorial feet with long talons for capturing prey.  \nHope this helps
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Briophobia- Fear of the human foot.\n\nHopefully these sites will help
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Salamanders have a 'sprawling' stance.  This means that the limbs are positioned so that they extend sideways from the body before they bend to touch the ground.  Mammals have an upright stance, where the limbs are positioned underneath the body.  This change allowed for easier locomotion in mammals - they can move more quickly and with a longer stride.  \n\nThis chapter ( http://www.chemek.cc.or.us/ncsr/menu%20of%20products/documents/mampg9.pdf ) has some good info about mammal skeletal anatomy, and how it has evolved.  This article ( http://homepage.mac.com/wis/Personal/lectures/limb-evolution/LimbEvolution.html ) has some info about limb evolution.  Hope that helps!
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Look in Roget's Thesaurus..under "walker"#268 p.70 copyright 1947. Grosset and Dunlap, Inc.\n\nI found : Traveller, voyager, wayfarer, itinerant,  passenger. tourist, excursionist, globe-trotter, explorer, adventurer, mountainerr,peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird-of-passage, gad-about, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, wastrel, stray, loafer, etc. and pilgrim, peripatetic, itinerant, pedestrian, somnabulist, noctambulist, emigrant, fugitive. etc.\n\nNow try to think of some similar verbs for moving along in one fashion or another on your own. Make them active/descriptive of the manner of walking in some way, then check dictionary or thesaurus to see if they are real words.\n\n Try: ambled-ambling, voyaged-voyaging, rambled-rambling, (etc)strolled. loped, inched, slinked, creeped, crawled, hied, perambulate, dashed, tromped, tramped, slithered, hopped, moved. traversed-traversing, conducted, promenaded, danced, strolled,  kept pace, made one's way, neared, tripped along, dashed, trotted, etc. \n\nFootball jargon: Matriculated down the field.\n\nHope this helps. Good luck\n\nCarole\n\n>>>Can someone please help me find strong action verbs for "walking"? please.?\n\ni tried asking everybody at home but nobody can give me an answer.... i'm really stuck.<<<
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What are flys called when they lose their wings?\n\n\n\n"Walks"
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Walking Dogs\n\nisnt it?
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Those are the charactistics by which a species is defined by taxonomists, the people who classify plants and animals.\n\nGenerally, a species is defined by those characteristics that the entire species has, not those that vary greatly among individuals.  They must also be characteristics that are different from other species.  So, for example, you might count the number of bones in a particular body part, or the position of the eyes relative to the rest of the face, or whatever.  Sometimes it is a behavior characteristic, but usually it is one shaped by a physical characteristic.  \n\nTry it on dogs, to see for yourself.  There are many breeds of dogs, and their hair, their shape and size, etc., vary greatly.  You can't use those.  They have four legs and a tail, but so do lots of animals other than dogs.  But dogs have a unique ventilation system, in that instead of sweating all over, they hang out their tongues and pant to get rid of excess moisture.  I am not enough of a taxonomist to give you all the details, but you could look them up.  Be prepared to discover, as I did when I read a book all about dogs, that several animals which have different names are also dogs in the scientific sense of being members of the species.  (Dang!  My cheap new dictionary does not give the Latin names.)
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The shape of their feet and the way they feed.  A sea gull will have webbed feet for swimming but are also carrion feeders which mean they have to walk on shore.  A sparrow has clawed feet and must hop from branch to branch.
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Footloose\nFootsore\nToes Up\nHeel Bone
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Most, if not all mammals are vertebrates.  That simply means that they have a backbone or a spinal column.  An example of an invertebrate would be an octupus.  Hope this clears it up a bit!
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Some have tiny hooks on their feet and others have claws.
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Labyrinth Lizards\nRainforest Rangers\nTropical Tigers