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Are #mice and #rats plantigrade or digitigrade? I've seen a loooot of studies that code them as plantigrade (e.g. https://t.co/S2lUHtMdPc) ... but their ankle is well above the ground (e.g. video from https://t.co/vb51BJR4gP) What am I missing? 🐀 #biom
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And I'm happy to report a bunch of Quebecois scientists wondered the same thing in 2016. https://t.co/tv4xxsGdxE Their findings bolster my hypothesis: "Full-bound, as a high-speed running gait, is highly demanding on energy, and calls for a high motivatio