hind

(noun)

A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.

Related Terms

  • antefix
  • cella

Examples of hind in the following topics:

  • Vestigial Structures

    • The pelvic bones in whales are also a good example of vestigial evolution (whales evolved from four-legged land mammals and secondarily lost their hind legs).
    • Letter c in the picture indicates the undeveloped hind legs of a baleen whale.
  • Delphi and Greek Treasuries

    • Most of the scenes consist of only two characters and few scenes, such as Herakles fighting the Ceryean Hind (an enormous deer), and display a new sense of ingenuity.
    • The figure of Herakles breaks out of the frame as he leans on the hind's back, trying to catch it.
    • Metope depicting Herakles and Ceryean Hind.
  • Sculpture in the Vijayanagar Empire

    • Temple pillars often have engravings of charging horses or hippogryphs (yali)—horses standing on hind legs with their fore legs lifted and riders on their backs.
  • Paralysis

    • Dogs so affected will become gradually weaker in the hind legs as nerves die off.
    • Eventually their hind legs become useless.
  • Modern Amphibians

    • Adult frogs use their hind limbs to jump on land.
    • Frogs demonstrate a great diversity of parental behaviors: some species lay many eggs and exhibit little parental care; other species carry eggs and tadpoles on their hind legs or backs.
  • Shaping

    • For example, Skinner would reward the rat for taking a step toward the lever, for standing on its hind legs, and for touching the lever—all of which were successive approximations toward the target behavior of pressing the lever.
  • Sculpture in the Greek Geometric Period

    • Without the equine back and hind legs, the centaur portion of the sculpture is a shorter man with human legs.
  • Expressive Qualities of Line

    • In Las Meninas by Diego Velasquez, the artist uses expressive lines in the aprons on the girls' dresses and in the dog's folded hind leg and coat pattern .
  • Varieties of Line

    • Expressive lines are used in the aprons on the girls' dresses and in the dog's folded hind leg and coat pattern in this painting by Velasquez.
  • Evidence of Evolution

    • These unused structures (such as wings on flightless birds, leaves on some cacti, and hind leg bones in whales) are vestigial.
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