He was thin and exhausted, was blind of one eye, had a bad sore back, and one of his forelegs was very much swollen.
It was so much taller on its haunches than its shoulders, its forelegs were so disproportionately small, that, in walking, its hind-feet invariably took precedence.
Valiantly the horse reared his shoulders up, but when he strove to rise the right foreleg dangled helplessly.
This behaviour enables olfactory sensilla located on the foreleg tarsi to detect odours.
Ticks extend their forelegs like antennae when actively exploring their environment or responding to stimuli from a stationary perch.
Diet affected male foreleg length (both femur and tibia) and also the number of fore-femoral scales (table 2).