Their loins are more slender, their legs longer, their feet narrower, and their tails more thinly clothed with fur.

Their back legs are slightly longer than their front legs, and their muzzles are blunt with eyes, nostrils, and ears on top of their heads.

Their long legs and curved canine teeth are adapted for hunting small mammals, birds, and reptiles, and their large feet and fused leg bones give them a physique well-suited for long-distance running, capable of maintaining speeds of for extended periods of time.

Their legs are also short, considerably shorter when compared to a small tiger or lion in a similar weight range, but are thick and powerful.

Their long legs and bone structure suggest an animal that was adapted to running at high speeds over rough terrain.

Their temperature control mechanism relies on action by the bird, which uses its wings to cover the naked skin of the upper legs and flanks to conserve heat, or leaves these areas bare to release heat.

Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the legs to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger.

Their arms move with opposite legs.

Their legs, technically called lobopods, are loosely conical in shape, tapering from the body to their clawed tips.

Their name comes from the Latin cruralis meaning " of the legs ".

Their industry brought about many inventions like Babbitt metal, the rotary harrow, the circular saw, the clothespin, the Shaker peg, the flat broom, the wheel-driven washing machine, a machine for setting teeth in textile cards, a threshing machine, metal pens, a new type of fire engine, a machine for matching boards, numerous innovations in waterworks, planing machinery, a hernia truss, silk reeling machinery, small looms for weaving palm leaf, machines for processing broom corn, ball-and-socket tilters for chair legs, and a number of other useful inventions.

Their legs are short and stout, with broad paws.

Their legs and feet are weak and short, and trogons are essentially unable to walk beyond a very occasional shuffle along a branch.

Their Snowspeeder inflicts the first casualty against the AT-AT attack group by firing a harpoon trailing a tow cable into one of the walker's legs and circling the walker several times, causing it to trip and fall and allowing Rebel forces to destroy the walker.

Their legs are feathered to the toes, and in winter the toes too have feathers or small scales on the sides, an adaptation for walking on snow and burrowing into it for shelter.

Their long legs allow them to take strides of up to They are opportunistically nomadic and may travel long distances to find food ; they feed on a variety of plants and insects, but have been known to go for weeks without food.

Their legs are among the strongest of any animals, allowing them to rip metal wire fences.

Their feet have only three toes and a similarly reduced number of bones and associated foot muscles ; they are the only birds with gastrocnemius muscles in the back of the lower legs.

Their legs are long, the hind pair well adapted for jumping: a flea can jump vertically up to 7 inches ( 18 cm ) and horizontally up to 13 inches ( 33 cm ), making the flea one of the best jumpers of all known animals ( relative to body size ), second only to the froghopper.

Their powerful hind legs are not only used for bounding at high speeds and jumping great heights, but also to administer vigorous kicks to fend off potential predators.

Their long, sturdy legs are well suited for long leaps, and their toes are unusually large.

Their limbs ( wings and legs ) have adapted to have greater flexibility over time.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

Their commitments are, for the most part, couched in a familiar idiom.

Their conclusions concerning the untrustworthiness of the West Saxon annals, the confused chronology of Bede, the unreliability of the early positions of the Anglo-Saxon genealogies and the mythological elements contained in Nennius are now mostly accepted.

Their privations are almost beyond endurance.

Their national leader, Robert Bolivar DePugh of Norborne, Mo., says the Minutemen believe that guerrilla tactics are best suited to defeat the Red onslaught.

Their United States tax returns are due April 16, 1962.

Their locations in all parts of the United States, and their locations in the several kinds of educational and research institutions that are the principal homes of our intellectual and artistic strengths also are factors in the Trustees' minds.

Their friends and ours are welcome to share the pool, but on our terms and at our times.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

Their effects are only superficially startling.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

Their autumn tints are all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America.

Their metabolic rate is low and as a result, their food and energy requirements are limited.

Their ribs are usually short and may be fused to the vertebrae.

Their skulls are mostly broad and short and are often incompletely ossified.

Their lungs are functional early but the larvae don't make as much use of them as do tadpoles.

Their gills are never covered by gill sacs and are reabsorbed just before the animals leave the water.

Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.

Their beliefs and behavior are difficult to decipher from physical materials, and their languages remain unknown as they had no known writing system.