What's the difference between fourfooted and quadrupedal?
Fourfooted
Definition:
(a.) Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
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Quadrupedal
Definition:
(a.) Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.
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(1) Both the segmental distribution of hindlimb dorsal root fibers and their pattern of termination in Clark's nucleus in the tree shrew were similar to that reported in quadrupedal primates and other quadrupedal mammalian forms.
(2) The opposite was observed in adult dogs, where bipedalism was shown to be much more energy-consuming than quadrupedalism.
(3) Specifically, for the same direction of platform movement, during bipedal stance muscles on one side of the lower limb were activated in a distal to proximal sequence; during quadrupedal stance, muscles on the opposite side of the lower limb were activated and in a proximal to distal sequence.
(4) Human children, at the transitional stage between quadrupedalism and bipedalism, have high and almost equal requirements for all postures and locomotions.
(5) The vastus lateralis muscle is of primary importance in leaping inasmuch as it initiates the jumps; on the contrary the activity of the vastus intermedius does not increase during jumping, but it is the only one to be active in quadrupedal resting postures.
(6) Interlimb co-ordination typical of swimming (or trotting) in adult quadrupedal vertebrates was already present on postnatal day 1, and so apparently the neural pattern generating circuitry for this behaviour is already established by this stage.
(7) Compared with resting posture, the principal findings are 1) cardiac output shows a minimal increase for humans in bipedal stance and a noticeable increase for dogs as well as humans in quadrupedal stance; 2) quadrupedal stance in humans and dogs and bipedal stance in dogs require increased blood supply to the muscles of the neck, back, and limbs, while human bipedal stance requires none of these; 3) cerebral blood flow (internal carotid) in humans did not change as a result of bipedal posture or locomotion, but showed a noticeable drop in quadrupedal posture and an even further drop in quadrupedal locomotion.
(8) Tail-arm suspension is practiced more rapidly on thinner supports, and on more negatively inclined supports than is quadrupedal movement.
(9) Thus the quadrupedal and bipedal abilities of the vervet monkey was reflected in the structure of its brachial plexus.
(10) The characteristics of the quadrupedal terrestrial primate foot contrast with the very unique pattern seen in the hominid foot.
(11) Quadrupedalism in humans was with subjects on their hands and knees.
(12) The aim of this study is to address the problem of the controlled variable in quadrupedal stance.
(13) The quadrupedal orangutan always exhibited low potentials in the pectoralis major muscle and EMG activity commonly occurred in her supraspinatus and subscapularis muscles.
(14) Morphological adaptations to climbing (a scansorial mode of quadrupedal, arboreal locomotion practised on twigs and small branches) are identified by relating anatomical details of limb bones to a sample of 6,136 instantaneous observational recordings on the positional behavior and support uses of 20 different free-ranging, adult red howlers.
(15) These features unequivocally segregate quadrupedal pongids and bipedal hominids and demonstrate a clear adaptation to terrestrial bipedality in the Hadar pedal skeleton.
(16) The transition from a basically quadrupedal to an upright stance must have been a critical stage in the early hominids before the appearance of Australopithecus and after a Ramaor Dryopithecine time.
(17) Functionally, the fossils indicate quadrupedal or leaping habits rather than suspensory or bipedal behaviors.
(18) Results show that the flexion phase (F E1) and the extension phase (E2 E3) of the SIS-induced step cycle are quite comparable to those of the normal step cycle in other quadrupedal animals walking on the ground.
(19) Ateles locomotion can be divided into five patterns on the basis of limb usage: quadrupedal walking and running, suspensory locomotion, climbing, bipedalism and leaping.
(20) A group of cats whose second hemisection was done within 7 days after the first hemisection needed 24 to 53 (mean 43) days to recover quadrupedal standing, whereas cats whose second hemisection occurred after 10 to 126 days needed 7 to 22 (mean 15) days.