toes

     

Toes are the igits of the foot of an animal. Many animal species such as cats walk on their toes, and are described as being digitigrade. Humans, and other animals that walk on the soles of their feet, are plantigrade; unguligrade animals are those that walk on hooves at the tips of their toes.

Trivia about toes

  • They're the parts of a baby's body referred to in rhyme as "piggies"
  • The bones of these foot parts are called phalanges
  • In ballet, to dance "sur les pointes" is to dance on these
  • Ballerinas & night watchmen, are both alert when they stay on them
  • In parrots these are zygodactyl -- the first & fourth are turned backwards
  • The jazzy ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" was originally part of the Broadway musical "On Your" these

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