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He glances at the stuffed kangaroos, wallabies and little potoroos and bettongs, the platypus and echidna, and a furry “sugar glider,” with webbing between its fore and hindfeet for sailing through the air, stuffed and suspended from wires as though in midflight, and gives even less attention to a gaudy array of dead beetles from around the world, before following the signs to the exhibit about the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009

    He glances at the stuffed kangaroos, wallabies and little potoroos and bettongs, the platypus and echidna, and a furry “sugar glider,” with webbing between its fore and hindfeet for sailing through the air, stuffed and suspended from wires as though in midflight, and gives even less attention to a gaudy array of dead beetles from around the world, before following the signs to the exhibit about the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Hunting the Thylacine 2009

They are also odd among salamanders in that some species can drop the tail as a predator-defence mechanism (properly called caudal autotomy), and in that some species have only four toes on the hindfeet.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Tadrith snorted and mock-scraped his hindfeet, as if burying something particularly noxious from a previous meal.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Tadrith snorted and mock-scraped his hindfeet, as if burying something particularly noxious from a previous meal.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Either they fell by the wayside, or they got too close to her, and she sent them tumbling injured out of the sky, slashed by one of her wicked hindfeet, to be finished off by one of the other gryphons.

The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

Creep forward with forefeet until you were as stretched-out you could get, then inch the hindfeet up until your back hunched, and start over again.

The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

The legs are short, the forefeet have four "fingers," and the hindfeet have five small, hooflike "toes."

15 Agouti 1991

Stefen went flying headfirst into a snowdrift, and came up, scraping snow out of his eyes, just in time to see Vanyel cut an axe-wielding attacker in half with his sword, while Yfandes mashed in a second man's face with her hindfeet.

Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

Stefen went flying headfirst into a snowdrift, and came up, scraping snow out of his eyes, just in time to see Vanyel cut an axe-wielding attacker in half with his sword, while Yfandes mashed in a second man's face with her hindfeet.

Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990