Bird Feet(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Syndactyl: the third and fourth toes (outer and middle) are united for most of their length and have a broad sole in common, as in the Belted Kingfisher
Zygodactyl: the toes are arranged in pairs, the second and third toes in front, the fourth and hallux behind, as in a woodpecker.
Lobate, or lobed: a swimming foot with a series of lateral lobes on the toes, as in a grebe.
Medium-sized syndactylbirds with bill crow-like or broad and short, hooked; legs stout, toessyndactyl, plumage often with blues and purples.
Medium sized, terrestrial, syndactyl, long-legged birds, large stout bill, long tail, male plumage with blues and rufous.
Medium-sized birds, weakly syndactyl foot, short tarsus, plumage partly or entirely uniform (usually glossy) fl, tail long, bill long and slender, decurved in most species.
This condition is called syndactyly, and is characteristic of the Diprotodontia (the order of marsupial herbivores that includes kangaroos, wombats, possums, and many others).
A third view suggests that the bandicoot group evolved from a primitive carnivore, developed the syndactylous hind foot as a specialisation for climbing, and the diprotodonts then split off and evolved the two-tooth jaw that gives them their name.
Recent molecular level investigations do not so far appear to have resolved the puzzle, but do strongly suggest that whatever the relationship of the bandicoot group to the other marsupial orders may be, it is a distant one.
M&M Orthopaedics(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Medical Mission took place from May 26 to June 4, 2006 in the northern Andes of Peru.
They were able to perform over 200 surgical procedures, among them, 4 total knee replacements, 6 bilateral handsyndactyl reconstructions, several skin graft procedures for burned patients, 30 cleft lip and palate surgeries, plus many laparoscopic, gynecological, ophthalmological and ENT procedures.
They saw thousands of people as outpatients in different specialties and were able to provide more than 1,250 examinations and glasses by volunteer optometrists that accompanied the group.
If my recollection of older cryptid literature is correct, the three and four toed tracks were more often associated with non-F&B characteristics, UFO sightings, etc., than were the "normal" BF tracks.
But, they seemed to be found in particular regions like you would expect from a recurrent mutation, so it could just be syndactylism.
But, I can't see any benefit to having 3 toes in a southern U.S. enviroment, or 4 toes in the PNW enviroment, so I guess I'm ready to settle on syndactylism, well..until I get another crazy idea at least.
His examination of da Vinci materials – artworks, pre-restoration photos, infrared revelations of the artist's sketches under the paint, translations of his notebooks, Italian writings of the day and paintings for which da Vinci most likely posed – reveals that the left-handed artist may have had a deformed left hand.
Sweeney's research convinced him that da Vinci had a congenital defect – a webbed, or syndactyl, hand.
The artist's drawings of his own hand, Sweeney contends, seem to depict a webbed third and fourth finger, characteristic of syndactyly, and a pointed little finger.
The sandwich generation Tock is Rudy who paces between the maternity and death wards until Jimmy is born at the same moment his father dies.
Rudy soon learns how accurate the predictions are as Josef stated the height and weight of his grandson and that the child will need surgery to correct Syndactyl or call him Flipper.
On that same day at the same location, a circus clown goes on a killing rampage.
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History(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Characteristics shared between motmots and other members of the Coraciiformes order include small feet relative to body mass, syndactyltoes, cavity nesting (typically in cliffs, banks, rock crevices, or trees), and a primarily carnivorous nature.
With a wide geographic range and differing habitat usage, the Blue-crowned Motmots have been classified into 20 distinct subspecies.
The legs of Blue-crowned Motmots are characterized by short tarsi and a syndactyl foot, which is distinguished by a single rear facing toe, and a middle toe almost completely joined to the inner toe.
Usually they correct cleft lips and palates and graft skin onto burn victims.
However, during some of his visits, Kurtzman has also rectified syndactyl (webbed) fingers, removed obtrusive tumors from people’s faces, and rebuilt facial parts destroyed by diseases.
Sometimes a person’s deformities are so severe that he will need several complicated operations.
During the process some revelations will be obvious, while others may be controversial.
A most fortuitous revisit of his hand studies has led to the conclusion that both the weary hand sketch and the left hand of Christ in The Last Supper are examples of syndactyl or synpolydactyl hands.
Sintesi di un’intervista realizzata in prima serata con Ben Sweeney dall’emittente americana ABC
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Belted Kingfisher(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Kingfishers belong to an order of birds known as CORACIIFORMES.
One characteristic of this order is syndactylfeet, the outer two toes of which are joined almost to the end.
Kingfishers are fairly shy, and will seldom allow you to approach closer than about 100 feet.
They generally have syndactylfeet (3 forward-pointing toes and a reversed hallux).
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