Quadruped
noun
An animal that walks on four legs.
Most mammals, like dogs and cats, are quadrupeds.
adjective
Having four feet.
The table is quadruped, it stands on four legs.
Often appears as...
- quadruped mammal
- quadruped creature
noun
An animal that walks on four legs.
Most mammals, like dogs and cats, are quadrupeds.
adjective
Having four feet.
The table is quadruped, it stands on four legs.
Often appears as...
- quadruped mammal
- quadruped creature
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Pro Tip 1/3Living Creatures
Quadruped is used for living animals, not objects with four support points.
Most quadrupeds can run faster than two-legged creatures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Bipedal
Quadrupeds and bipeds are opposites; 'quadruped' highlights the animal doesn't walk on two legs.
Birds are generally not quadrupeds.
Pro Tip 3/3Walking, Not Crawling
Quadruped animals walk with their legs, distinguishing them from creatures that crawl or slither.
Turtles, even with four limbs, aren't always considered quadrupeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Living Creatures
Quadruped is used for living animals, not objects with four support points.
Most quadrupeds can run faster than two-legged creatures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Bipedal
Quadrupeds and bipeds are opposites; 'quadruped' highlights the animal doesn't walk on two legs.
Birds are generally not quadrupeds.
Pro Tip 3/3Walking, Not Crawling
Quadruped animals walk with their legs, distinguishing them from creatures that crawl or slither.
Turtles, even with four limbs, aren't always considered quadrupeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Living Creatures
Quadruped is used for living animals, not objects with four support points.
Most quadrupeds can run faster than two-legged creatures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Bipedal
Quadrupeds and bipeds are opposites; 'quadruped' highlights the animal doesn't walk on two legs.
Birds are generally not quadrupeds.
Pro Tip 3/3Walking, Not Crawling
Quadruped animals walk with their legs, distinguishing them from creatures that crawl or slither.
Turtles, even with four limbs, aren't always considered quadrupeds.
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So among all these animals, one of my favorites is the salamander. You might ask why, and it's because as an amphibian, it's a really key animal from an evolutionary point of view. It makes a wonderful link between swimming, as you find it in eels or fish, and quadruped locomotion, as you see in mammals, in cats and humans.
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So among all these animals, one of my favorites is the salamander. You might ask why, and it's because as an amphibian, it's a really key animal from an evolutionary point of view. It makes a wonderful link between swimming, as you find it in eels or fish, and quadruped locomotion, as you see in mammals, in cats and humans.
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Georges Cuvier
French Scientist
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
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William Bartram
American Environmentalist
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
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Georges Cuvier
French Scientist
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
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Donald Johanson
American Scientist
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
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Charles Lyell
British Lawyer
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Georges Cuvier
French Scientist
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
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William Bartram
American Environmentalist
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
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Georges Cuvier
French Scientist
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
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Donald Johanson
American Scientist
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
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Charles Lyell
British Lawyer
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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