| In the case of larger quadrupeds, birds, fish etc, preparing and eating the item is considerably easier when it is dead. |
| Not surprisingly, crurotarsans are much more likely to be obligate quadrupeds than are ornithodires. |
| As well as gazelle-like quadrupeds, other zoomorphic motifs such as elephants, lions, hares, birds or fish are depicted on the strainers. |
| Horses, and other quadrupeds, also have scope for functional specialisation between limbs. |
| In some cases horns form one part with the helmet, while in other cases it is relief figures of the foreparts of birds or quadrupeds. |
| In short, quadrupeds have their anterior members in the position of pronation. |
