Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

Dutch Scientist

Richard Dawkins

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

English Scientist

Lynn Coady

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

Canadian Novelist

Dick Strawbridge

My old man used to say that I would argue the hind leg of a donkey. If I didn't agree with something, I wasn't prepared to accept it.

British Entertainer

John Gavin

There was no studio system to let me work my way up through small roles. When I got up on my hind legs, no one would believe it.

American Actor

Red Adair

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

American Celebrity

Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

American President

Bob Baffert

Following the Santa Anita Derby, Medina Spirit developed dermatitis on his hind end.

Refers exclusively to female red deer, not males.

Gender Specific

Used more in wildlife and nature discussions or observations.

Nature Context

Common term in animal behavior studies and nature documentaries.

Wildlife Observation

Describes the position of body parts relative to others.

Physical Position

Used in anatomy and animal sciences to describe location.

Anatomical Reference

Hind limbs are often associated with an animal's propulsion.

Movement Importance

Now outdated, mainly of historical interest.

Archaic Usage

Useful in understanding social structures of the past.

Historical Research

May appear in novels or films set in historical times.

Literary Depiction

Specific to farm labor and not used for industrial workers.

Agricultural Worker

More common in Scottish and Northern English rural communities.

Regional Term

Not just any worker; implies skill in specific farm tasks.

Skill Level

 skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 that was that we did not have a plausible mode of locomotion for this animal you know we kind of said well maybe it's kind of paddling with its hind feet but essentially we didn't have a motor that would move this thing through the water you know what

The Strange Tail of...

 I had woven carbon fiber sprinting legs modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah, which you may have seen on stage yesterday. And also these very life-like, intrinsically painted silicone legs. So at the time, it was my opportunity to put a call out

It's not fair having 12...

 plastic water bottles to help but not this critic then the water holding frog burrows into the soggy earth to a depth of more than three feet come on admit it you'd need a shovel to do that not just your hind legs and here's where the Frog

Water Holding Frogs PIPE...

 Two males also occupy this area and, soon enough, they begin competing for her affections. Each has spurs on its hind legs containing a potent snake-like venom. One male fights the other off and courts the female over several weeks,

A year in the life of...

 smallest the one that gets there first lasts scientists aren't really sure but it just may be the one that tickles her the best the male is using what's called his mating sperm the last vestige of what was a hind laid in his lizard

Anaconda Breeding Ball PIPE...

 robotic system were able to take steps on solid ground with their hind legs and eventually sprint and climb stairs and what we observe is that over time the animal regains the capacity to perform one two steps and then long run and

Paralyzed Rats Walk...

 dark patches actually help the meerkats see better and therefore stay safe in the group one meerkat will always have the Rolla century this is when one group member will stand on their hind legs

Otters Have a Favourite...

 elephant approach and scratching his hind feet with Chris inside so there scary moments when you do this fieldwork but if that's the price of admission you have to pay to enter their world we

Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...

 after this they touch the bones with their hind feet scientists who have studied elephant behavior are certain that elephants experience deep emotions and have some understanding about death