Tried looking up the reasons certain animals evolved certain feet and its just a ton of random videos from hoof cleanings to furry robotic legs. Can anyone help me out?
Where are the hooved lizards or birds?
Evolutionary reason for foot shapes.
Tried looking up the reasons certain animals evolved certain feet and its just a ton of random videos from hoof cleanings to furry robotic legs. Can anyone help me out?
Where are the hooved lizards or birds?
it's to put more spring in your step
Once your digits become hoofs/flippers, is it still possible to evolve back into hands/claws?
Crazier shit has happened
Why the shit did it feel the need to jump that super high? Did the humans give it drugs?
no, evolution is a one way street, you cant go backwards and rebuild something that is lost, once a species specializes into a specific niche, its an evolutionary dead-end and it cant really unspecialize
I mean when it came to cetaceans their early ancestor had hooves but slowly they changed to clawed feet and then flippers once they became more aquatic
Amazing
The main reason behind their shape is what they evolved from, for example the human foot was originally a hand.
Beyond that, the mutations that catch on seem to follow the patterns you see on cars: low unsprung mass for speed, robustness and grip for rough terrain, etc.
Bro are ostriches gonna get hooves too
Eventually, yeah, at least something similar.
It is interesting to ponder over. The proportions of the hoof vs. paw. Hoof vs paw pad. It begs the question. Why no paw pads on these prey animals? Why no hooved predators? All i can guess is one is built for pursuit and one is built for evasion. Like a missile doesn't look like a plane and vice versa. Perhaps they are both tuned for purpose.
>Why no paw pads on these prey animals?
>Why no hooved predators?
depends on the animal lifestyle really, like i think marsupials have pads and more them are prey animals and there was a predator pig at one point, and whales are descended from hooves predators. hooves are really good at running, because it digs into the ground while spring back for more force, but you cant really do anything else with it, paws are great because they can turn a little, allowing you to grab things, but you sacrifice some speed for it
and, paws are much quieter
Depends on the terrain too, I'd imagine having paws would work well in mountainous/rocky areas since they have better grip, whereas hooves are solid and only dig in well to regular ground
Maybe for odd toe ungulates, even toe ungulates don't have much problem, i.e goats and llamas
Tell that to mountain goats
And cheetahs
>why no hooved predators?
Paws/claws = scratch and grab. Think of cats and bears climbing onto things and dogs jumping and digging in; the same principles are applied when they hunt their respective prey animals (e.g. lions pouncing and grabbing antelope with their claws and mouth at the same time). Hooved predators would have to be crazy fast and have an insane jaw to compete - the fact so few of them existed kind of proves it's a losing formula. Entelodonts are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.
>Entelodonts are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.
>Entelodonts
>Predatory
Anon, entelodonts were strictly herbivorous/vegan and even more so than modern pigs. They only got these huge jaws for competing for mates, like hippos.
If else, entelodonts were naturally selected to be livestock for hyaenodons.
>how about you entelo-dont
>Plantigrade
>Digitigrade
>Ungulate
The next term in the sequence should have been "Unguligrade".
Protip ungulate is digitigrade
Yes, that's my point. One is a noun, the other is an adjective.
>Brown
>Green
>Mother
>Well actually a mother is mother-colored
Wait, I misread your post. No it isn't. Ungulates walk on their nails, not their toes.
no, ungulates walk on their toes, digitgrade walks on their metacarpals
That's...not anatomically correct.
metacarpals and metatarsals are the same shit, theyre the median bones between the joint and the phalanges
Ungulates walk on the unguals, which are the tips of the digits
digitigrades walk on the digits
plantigrades walk on the metatarsals.
plantigrade walk on their heels
we dont just walk on our metatarsals, if we did that would be digitgrade
>if we did that would be digitgrade
can you name any digitigrade animals that walk on their metatarsals?
dogs, cats, elephants
Interesting
We're you born retarded or is it from an injury?
>Where are the hooved lizards or birds?
Dinosaurs
>Where are the hooved lizards or birds?
Already answered this. Ever since the gross mammals took over, they filled up all the niches and became dominant. Back when Dinosaurs were around there were hooved species. At least some Hadrosaurs seemed to even be moving in the direction of walking on one hoof like horses, but only for the front legs. Birds are the same story. After the Cretaceous they had a minor Cenozoic heyday here and there and some even now are moving in the direction of hooved, like the ostrich.
>gross mammals
t. Lizard person
Don't compare me to this parasitic primate.
cope