Favorite quadruped.

[HopeHoops]

Heh, heh, heh....

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Itteh bitteh kittehs!

[Denninmi]

2. Ah, I refuse to participate in a discriminatory thread.

Equal rights for tetrapods. That's what I'm talking about!

"Not all four-limbed animals are quadrupeds. Although arms and wings are, in the evolutionary sense, modified legs, four-limbed vertebrates are in fact classed as tetrapods, members of the taxonomic unit Tetrapoda. These include all vertebrates with quadrupedal ancestors, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds.
The distinction between quadrupeds and tetrapods is important in evolutionary biology, particularly in the context of bipeds, winged animals, and animals whose limbs have adapted to other roles (e.g. fins, in the case of cetaceans and pinnipeds). All of these animals are tetrapods, but none is a quadruped. Even snakes, whose limbs have become vestigial or lost entirely, are nevertheless tetrapods."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupedalism

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

7. Actually, in many species of snakes (like boas) the only way to easily sex them is by a claw.

There's a claw on either side of the male under a scale and near the exhaust port. Residual leg with no known current purpose.

[InvisibleTouch]

10. It has a purpose.

Males stroke the females with their spurs during mating, and male pythons have been observed using the spurs on each other during dominance maneuvers. Females often have spurs too, but they tend to be smaller. It's very cool to see these vestigial legs on the large constrictors, though. I guess they are bipeds? :)

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

3. Cat and canines

and

[Tikki]

4. Four Aussie Hawks...

FOOTY...:)

Tikki

[HappyMe]

5. Land shark!

Candy gram!

[csziggy]

6. No. 1 Horses; No. Kittehs

Ziggy & Bob


Tashi

[hifiguy]

8. In homage to ancient lounge history, the mighty

YAK!!



But, really, felis catus.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. Sloths! (oh, really, I'm crazy about too many to list)

ADORABLE video from the Sloth Rescue, Costa Rica http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pqio2G_Ra6g

3-TOED SLOTH. AWWWWWWW!


2-TOED SLOTH. AWWWWWW!


http://slothrescue.org/ <---- click here...YOU CAN HELP THE SLOTH RESCUE

BABY TAPIRS. AWWWWWWWW!!!!! Noses!



SLOW LORIS mama and baby AWWWW I'm melting


TARSIERS!! AGHH SO CUTE!!


oh yeah--annnd SHRIMPY, my baby in my sig pic