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501 11 | appropriate size, and then and not till then they succeed in walking
502 11 | the whole body would be tilted forward. As it is, however,
503 15 | spotted lizards, freshwater tortoises, and turtles, have their
504 7 | points only, where they touch before and behind, but that
505 19 | moving. We must, I think, treat all this class as mutilated,
506 19 | right and left sides were trying to get distinguished.~The
507 15 | outwards they must of necessity tuck in their thighs and put
508 15 | freshwater tortoises, and turtles, have their legs attached
509 17 | kind swim with their heads twisted, as one-eyed men walk; they
510 5 | distinguished from the front are two-footed (biped). In them, of the
511 9 | part of the body which is underneath, and after this fashion
512 7 | it was a continuous and undivided whole. But some bloodless
513 9 | in two ways, either they undulate on the ground, like snakes,
514 9 | line which subtends them undulating animals could not move themselves;
515 9 | like caterpillars), and undulation is a flexion; others by
516 12 | leading position must be unencumbered, and the progression continuing
517 2 | granted principles of this universal character which appear in
518 | unless
519 8 | the opposite sides being unoccupied by a limb. A walking creature
520 8 | stationary; so slow and unprofitable would their movement necessarily
521 10 | scarab-beetle and the chafer, and to unsharded, like bees and wasps. Further,
522 | until
523 14 | experience either of these untoward results. And this is why
524 16 | obliquely and had their flexions upwards, and the legs themselves
525 2 | dimensions which inhere in various things; of these there are
526 14 | relative to the line of vision, Nature has made its eyes
527 10 | boat attempting to make its voyage with oars; now the frailty
528 9 | any kneeless animal which walked, at some other articulation.
529 9 | were to walk parallel to a wall in sunshine, the line described (
530 10 | unsharded, like bees and wasps. Further, birds that are
531 14 | you can see this if you watch them moving slowly. Even
532 10 | coot and the heron and all water-fowl. These fly stretching out
533 15 | animals which swim in a watery medium, all I mean that
534 17 | natural shape distorted. Web-footed birds swim with their feet;
535 17 | home in the water they are webbed; by this arrangement their
536 3 | athletes jump further with weights in their hands than without,
537 10 | clipper-built vessel, so as to be well-girt, and strong by dint of its
538 18 | the contrary live in the wet medium, and take in water,
539 | whereas
540 13 | forwards, the hip backwards; wherefore also the ankle bends backwards,
541 14 | always move criss-cross in whichever direction they are making
542 | who
543 12 | reason is that Nature’s workmanship is never purposeless, as
544 7 | we observe in the animal world is in agreement with the
545 8 | creatures, however, drag the wounded limb after them with the
546 8 | seen by the experiment of wounding one of their limbs; for
547 14 | first, the animal would be wrenched, and the progression would
548 9 | to move like men in the wrestling schools who crawl forward
549 3 | leaning against the hands and wrists. In all cases then that
550 11 | the lower. With advancing years the lower increase disproportionately,
551 15 | are carried along in the yielding medium, fish in the water,
552 9 | would be not straight but zigzag, becoming lower as he bends,
553 19 | creatures they are compared with zoophytes, and sedentary if classed