enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of animals by number of legs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number...

    Four classes of arthropods each provide multiple examples, including sea spiders (with 4 to 6 leg pairs, [11] providing two examples) and pauropods (adults with 8 to 11 leg pairs, [12] providing four examples), but most of the examples listed are either millipedes (adults with 11 to 653 leg pairs) [5] [1] or centipedes (adults with 15 to 191 ...

  3. Lemur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur

    Using their long, powerful back legs, they catapult themselves into the air and land in an upright posture on a nearby tree, with both hands and feet tightly gripping the trunk. [17] Indriids can leap up to 10 m (33 ft) rapidly from tree trunk to tree trunk, [ 17 ] [ 68 ] an ability referred to as "ricochetal leaping". [ 78 ]

  4. List of nocturnal animals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nocturnal_animals

    Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.

  5. Hyena - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena

    Most species have a rich mane of long hair running from the withers or from the head. [30] With the exception of the spotted hyena, hyaenids have striped coats, which they likely inherited from their viverrid ancestors. [7] Their ears are large and have simple basal ridges and no marginal bursa. [31]

  6. Hexapoda - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapoda

    The subphylum Hexapoda (from Greek for 'six legs') or hexapods comprises the largest clade of arthropods and includes most of the extant arthropod species. It includes the crown group class Insecta (true insects), as well as the much smaller clade Entognatha, which includes three classes of wingless arthropods that were once considered insects: Collembola (springtails), Protura (coneheads) and ...

  7. Nightjar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightjar

    The subfamilies of nightjars have similar characteristics, including small feet, of little use for walking, and long, pointed wings. The common poorwill , Phalaenoptilus nuttallii , is unique as a bird that undergoes a form of hibernation, becoming torpid and with a much reduced body temperature for weeks or months, although other nightjars can ...

  8. Arachnid - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid

    In Solifugae, the palps are quite leg-like, so that these animals appear to have ten legs. The larvae of mites and Ricinulei have only six legs; a fourth pair usually appears when they moult into nymphs. However, mites are variable: as well as eight, there are adult mites with six or, like in Eriophyoidea, even four legs. [7] [8] While the ...

  9. Quadrupedalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupedalism

    Quadrupedalism is a form of locomotion where animals have four legs that are used to bear weight and move around. An animal or machine that usually maintains a four-legged posture and moves using all four legs is said to be a quadruped (from Latin quattuor for "four", and pes , pedis for "foot").