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11-510: The Samburu " Nkampit " appears also to be a version of this creature. Descriptions of the Nandi bear are of a ferocious, powerfully built carnivore with high front shoulders (over four feet tall) and a sloping back. Stories of the Nandi bear state that it is fierce, nocturnal, stands on its hind legs and can kill animals. Charles William Hobley authored a diagram of its supposed foot in 1913. The Nandi people call it "kerit". Local legend holds that

22-408: A large number of quadrupeds. Though it is a posterior limb, it can cause lameness in some animals. The way of walking through hindlimbs are called bipedalism . Hindlimbs are helpful in many ways, some examples are: Frogs can easily adapt at the surroundings using hindlimbs. The main reason is it can jump high to easily escape to its predator and also to catch prey. It can perform some tricks using

33-482: Is no scientific evidence that the Nandi bear exists. Alleged sightings are suggested to be misidentification of known species. In 1923, Charles William Andrews suggested that the Nandi bear may be a surviving representative of the extinct Chalicothere . In the 1930s, Louis Leakey suggested that Nandi Bear descriptions matched that of the Chalicothere, though chalicotheres were herbivores. The Chalicothere hypothesis

44-438: Is one of the paired articulated appendages ( limbs ) attached on the caudal ( posterior ) end of a terrestrial tetrapod vertebrate 's torso . With reference to quadrupeds , the term hindleg or back leg is often used instead. In bipedal animals with an upright posture (e.g. humans and some primates ), the term lower limb is often used. It is located on the limb of an animal. Hindlimbs are present in

55-476: The Nandi bear has reddish hair, long feet and is said to scalp people. In 1961, Gardner Soule noted that sightings were reported in Kenya throughout the 19th century and early 20th century, but it "never has been caught or identified". Sightings of the Nandi bear decreased over time. In 1905, Richard Meinertzhagen speculated that it may have been an "anthropoid ape now extinct on account of decreased rainfall." There

66-619: The Nandi bear were misidentified hyenas, specifically the spotted hyena . In 1932, the British Natural History Museum stated that many reports of the Nandi Bear have "proved to have been nothing more than a spotted hyena." Similarly, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson commented that the Nandi bear "turned out to be in most if not all cases a ratel [honey-badger], an animal which had been known to scientific zoologists since 1776." Hind leg A hindlimb or back limb

77-428: The early Guadalupian epoch (latest Roadian stage) of North America , China , Germany , Russia and France . The bolosaurids were unusual for their time period by being bipedal , the oldest known tetrapods to have been so. Their teeth suggest that they were herbivores . The bolosaurids were a rare group and died out without any known descendants. The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of

88-536: The environment. Some species use hindlimbs for competition. The first vertebrate bipeds were the Bolosaurids , a group of prehistoric reptiles with no living relatives. The first one, Eudibamus , was a small, fast runner during the Permian Period . Bolosaurids Bolosauridae is an extinct family of parareptiles known from the latest Carboniferous ( Gzhelian ) or earliest Permian ( Asselian ) to

99-486: The hindlimbs such as the somersault and hindersault. Frogs have 4 digits in fore limb while hindlimb have five digits. All digits are without nails. All birds walk using hindlimbs. They have the ability to dig in two opposite directions using the hindlimbs. They can easily find food that makes them adapt on their surroundings. A bird with a forelimb that is very primitive is the Archaeopteryx . It adapted by using it but it

110-522: Was later abandoned. In 2000, paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs commented that "if chalicotheres existed now, they would have been found out just like the giant forest hog was." He concluded that "if there is anything to the Nandi-bear story besides imagination, I suspect it may be the word-of-mouth description of gorillas passed across the continent from areas where they live to areas where they do not." Zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock claimed that reports of

121-435: Was not capable of long-distance flights, leading to its extinction. The fastest biped is the ostrich. It runs at 70 km/h. Bipedality in kangaroo rats are seen to be an agent of adaptation. Kangaroo rats are long jumpers that can jump up to 18 feet, (that is twice the highest possible long jump and also high jump). Using hindlimbs they can survive a challenging ecosystem. They can easily find food and survive hindrances in

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