by tercota » January 12th, 2006, 11:15 pm
For anyone who doesn't know, digitigrade is a term for animals that walk on their phalanges (sp?). Plantigrade is the term for animals that walk using all the bones in their foot/paws. Unguligrade is the term for animals that use only the last bone in their foot. Most Carnivores are digitigrade, i.e, canids, felids, hyaenids etc. Plantigrade animals are humans, the great apes (not sure about the other primates though), Ursids, Ailuropodids (pandas), Procyonids, etc. Unguligrade animals are the hoofed animals, Artiodactylids and Perissodactylids. Generaly, the less of an animal's foot that's on the ground, the faster they can run.
For humans walking on their toes, all I can say it that it will probably cause horrible arthritis later on. My guess is that the person who made the file meant for it to train you to walk on their toes without having to think about it.