They are also unique among flying insects because their fore wings partly overlap their hind wings.
Somehow, my 85-pound yellow Lab, Harry, had managed to kick me in my left eye with his hind leg while he slept.
Amazingly, after only 6 months, like a miracle, Faith learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to move forward.
But nearly 100 million years ago relatives of modern snakes undulated through Cretaceous period waters aided by a paddlelike tail and dragging a pair of short, footless hind legs.
The hind leg of this horse was broken.
The dog helped the officers by stiffening his hind legs as they pulled him out.
I noticed the way his hind quarters shifted over to the right, never in line with the front, yet always in perfect rhythm.
To strike the front part of a hind foot against the rear or side part of a forefoot or foreleg on the same side of the of a horse.
The dog was sitting on his hind legs.
He thinks Microraptor used its hind wings only for gliding, folding them out of the way for powered flight.
"Wonderful weather this, " cried one of them, "and so refreshing. This linen holds the water together so beautifully, that my hind legs quiver as if I were going to swim."
Large pelvic muscles mean large forces exerted along the hind limbs - it looks that Balaur had more powerful hind limbs than its relatives.
Colugos glide between trees using their patagium, or flaps of skin between their front and hind legs and extending to the tail and the neck.
Standing on their hind legs, they are about 2.5m tall.
For instance, whales and dolphins have been found in nature with hind limbs; this rare occurrence is due to the reemergence of a trait they inherited from their terrestrial ancestors.
The leopard was snarling and furious at being caught, with its hind leg gashed by a wire snare.
"Tortoises have a high, domed shell, heavy elephant-like hind legs, and hard-scaled forelegs."
Meadow, a Black Angus yearling calf, tries out her new prosthetic hind legs at Colorado State University's James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching hospital.
The front leg first, then the hind.
Old Pretty by this time had looked round, puzzled; and seeing two people crouching under her where, by immemorial custom, there should have been only one, lifted her hind leg crossly.
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