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Animal Locomotion and Track Patterns FOR STUDENTS Type of Plantigrade Digitigrade Unguligrade Locomotion The formal term for “whole Tracks show the pads of Animals stand and walk on the foot” locomotion. When toes and the ball of the foot. very tips of their toes, which are humans walk, they plant the Animals, such as mountain protected by hooves. Tracks often heel of the foot, roll forward lions, stand and walk on cut deep into the soil or snow due the length of the foot, and their toes or digits, with their to the heavy weight of the animal. then push off with the toes, heels permanently raised. Tracks may be from one toenail Description creating a track that shows When we see birds walking (e.g., hoof of a horse) or from two the heel, sole of the foot, or hopping, what looks like toenails (e.g., hoof of a cow, deer, and toes. the bird knee is actually the elk, moose). A human would have ankle! When humans walk to grow long toenails and fingernails on “tiptoes” they are walking and plant only those nails on the digitigrade. ground to walk this way! Bears, rabbits and hares, Cats, dogs, birds Horses, deer, sheep, goats, cattle, Animals rodents, raccoons, weasels, giraffes, hippopotamuses, camels, Examples skunks and hedgehogs, rhinoceros, tapirs, and antelope marsupials, humans Bear Coyote Leg Bones Structure Elk Antelope Horse 4 Basic Animal Body Shape Track Pattern Description Examples Gaits Front feet and hind feet shaped Shows distinct front and hind Raccoon, opossum, muskrat, Pacers differently; bodies wide and footprints with a front and back groundhog, bear heavy set; relatively short legs footprint right next to each other (or waddlers) Long-legged animals with front Appear as a nearly straight line Human, deer, dog, cat Diagonal and back feet of similar size of single prints. walkers and shape (or perfect steppers) “Jumping” animals; have long Grouped in repeating sets with River otter, weasel, fisher bodies and short legs; feet are the hind tracks placed near the Bounders of similar size front tracks Typically have two large hind Set of four with the large hind feet Rabbit, hare, squirrel, mice Gallopers feet and small front feet tracks to the front and outside of (or the small front feet tracks hoppers) Tra c ks ! 41 Project WILD K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide .

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