digitigrade

A non-human character who walks on their toes rather than the sole of their foot. In real life, many animals are digitigrade, including cats, dogs, and foxes.

This tag primarily refers to humanoid (furry, monster girl, kemonomimi, taur) characters that have a digitigrade body structure, as well as some monsters. This tag also includes a similar hooved leg structure known as "unguligrade", where an animal walks on the tips of their hooves.

Sometimes called "reverse-jointed", as digitigrade legs can look like they have a knee that bends forward instead of backward like a human knee. However this "knee" actually corresponds to the human heel; on a quadruped, the knee analogue may not be immediately apparent.

A human mimicing the posture of digitigrades leads to them walking on tiptoes (aka forefoot striking), but without the heel touching the ground.

For the equivalent feature on a mecha, see reverse-jointed legs.

Examples

See also

• Animal feet
• Satyr

External links

• Wikipedia: Digitigrade