1. Animal species such as cats that walk on their toes are described as being digitigrade.

2. Mammals that rely on Cursorial locomotion, either for feeding or predator avoidance, are often permanently digitigrade (e

3. Digitigrade postures are often associated with Cursoriality (e.g., Howell, 1944;Jenkins, 1971;Brown and Yalden, 1973;Gambaryan, 1974;Coombs, 1978;Hildebrand, 1985;Stein and Casinos, 1997), and