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Definition of cursorial in English: cursorialadjective kəːˈsɔːrɪəlkərˈsɔriəl Zoology Having limbs adapted for running. 〔动〕适于奔跑的 a fast-flying and cursorial desert bird Example sentencesExamples - However, whether these elements belong to the wing or hindlimb can reflect the ecology of the living species, i.e., strong fliers versus cursorial or aquatic forms.
- Troodontids, judging from their cranial anatomy and cursorial adaptations, were likely agile, fast carnivores with acute senses.
- Mammals inhabit diverse habitats, radiation of specialized groups such as bats, whales, cursorial mammals, hominoids.
- They are highly adapted for cursorial life, their offspring are vulnerable to predation, and adequate den sites are limited.
- The traditional cursorial predator hypothesis suggests that the ancestors of birds were active ground-dwelling animals that used their arms in predation.
- A cursorial bipedal animal would have its arms free to do with them as it pleased while running, and its running speed would allow it to achieve the minimum speed necessary for liftoff.
- Both species live in early successional habitats and are often the two most abundant cursorial spiders in agricultural systems of the eastern and central United States.
- Theropod dinosaurs are seen to exhibit too many terrestrial and cursorial adaptations to be avian precursors.
- However, the transition from cursorial to aerial locomotion and maneuvering was not as simple as growing large wings.
- These rabbit-sized animals were among the most cursorial animals of their time, and may have been capable of rabbit-like leaping.
- However, during the Oligocene to late Miocene, a time period spanning approximately 20 Myr, the development of cursorial limbs in predators and in prey appears to have been decoupled.
- If we figure out that the probable ancestor of a flying group was a bipedal cursorial form, then flight likely evolved from the ground up.
- Thus, species that are strong fliers with robust wing elements leave bone assemblages richer in forelimb elements than species that tend to be more cursorial.
- By all three criteria, the skeleton of Caudipteryx falls into the domain of flightless birds rather than the space of cursorial dinosaurs.
- For example, mass regulation may be important only to flying, climbing, and cursorial animals, while avoidance will not be an option for any sessile or dormant animal.
- The Yixian dinosaurs were cursorial, bipedal, and not capable of flight.
- Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
- It has a heavy skull and a massive neck, and it is also by far the shortest-legged and least cursorial canid.
- Dromaeosaurs were all bipedal, fairly cursorial, and terrestrial.
- Ostrom introduced the cursorial predator hypothesis of the origin of avian flight.
OriginMid 19th century: from Latin cursor (see cursor) + -ial. Definition of cursorial in US English: cursorialadjectivekərˈsôrēəlkərˈsɔriəl Zoology Having limbs adapted for running. 〔动〕适于奔跑的 a fast-flying and cursorial desert bird Example sentencesExamples - However, during the Oligocene to late Miocene, a time period spanning approximately 20 Myr, the development of cursorial limbs in predators and in prey appears to have been decoupled.
- Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
- Mammals inhabit diverse habitats, radiation of specialized groups such as bats, whales, cursorial mammals, hominoids.
- If we figure out that the probable ancestor of a flying group was a bipedal cursorial form, then flight likely evolved from the ground up.
- However, whether these elements belong to the wing or hindlimb can reflect the ecology of the living species, i.e., strong fliers versus cursorial or aquatic forms.
- Both species live in early successional habitats and are often the two most abundant cursorial spiders in agricultural systems of the eastern and central United States.
- For example, mass regulation may be important only to flying, climbing, and cursorial animals, while avoidance will not be an option for any sessile or dormant animal.
- These rabbit-sized animals were among the most cursorial animals of their time, and may have been capable of rabbit-like leaping.
- Thus, species that are strong fliers with robust wing elements leave bone assemblages richer in forelimb elements than species that tend to be more cursorial.
- Troodontids, judging from their cranial anatomy and cursorial adaptations, were likely agile, fast carnivores with acute senses.
- They are highly adapted for cursorial life, their offspring are vulnerable to predation, and adequate den sites are limited.
- The Yixian dinosaurs were cursorial, bipedal, and not capable of flight.
- By all three criteria, the skeleton of Caudipteryx falls into the domain of flightless birds rather than the space of cursorial dinosaurs.
- Dromaeosaurs were all bipedal, fairly cursorial, and terrestrial.
- The traditional cursorial predator hypothesis suggests that the ancestors of birds were active ground-dwelling animals that used their arms in predation.
- A cursorial bipedal animal would have its arms free to do with them as it pleased while running, and its running speed would allow it to achieve the minimum speed necessary for liftoff.
- Theropod dinosaurs are seen to exhibit too many terrestrial and cursorial adaptations to be avian precursors.
- Ostrom introduced the cursorial predator hypothesis of the origin of avian flight.
- It has a heavy skull and a massive neck, and it is also by far the shortest-legged and least cursorial canid.
- However, the transition from cursorial to aerial locomotion and maneuvering was not as simple as growing large wings.
OriginMid 19th century: from Latin cursor (see cursor) + -ial. |