“Body mass was measured using a spring balance, and tarsus length by a caliper.”

“At 2000 h every day, chicks were weighed on the precision balance, and their tarsus length measured by using a pair of calipers.”

“Body condition was calculated as the ratio between the weight at capture and cube root tarsus length.”

“The species with strigose tarsi may be differentiated by the following key.”

“The tarsi of anoplurans consist of a large claw and a process that acts like a thumb.”

“It was noted that the contact surface of the tarsi of the beetle Hemisphaerota cyanea is water-repellent.”

“The preserved tarsal bones include the astragalus, calcaneum, and fourth and questionable fifth distal tarsals.”

“The postcranial skeleton, and especially the vertebrae, carpals and tarsals, were very slow to ossify.”

“The third segment consists of nine small bones, the carpals of the wrist or the tarsals of the ankle.”