{"id":257,"date":"2022-04-13T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=257"},"modified":"2022-04-16T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:09:21","slug":"key-features-of-legs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/chapter\/key-features-of-legs\/","title":{"raw":"Key Features of Legs","rendered":"Key Features of Legs"},"content":{"raw":"<strong>Key Features of Legs<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFinally, you may encounter some questions about leg modifications.\r\n\r\nFor example, mantids have raptorial front legs for grabbing prey; giant water bugs also have grasping front legs.\r\n\r\nGrasshoppers and their relatives, of course, have hind legs modified for jumping.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-390\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"411\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p><strong>Key Features of Legs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, you may encounter some questions about leg modifications.<\/p>\n<p>For example, mantids have raptorial front legs for grabbing prey; giant water bugs also have grasping front legs.<\/p>\n<p>Grasshoppers and their relatives, of course, have hind legs modified for jumping.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-390\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47-65x27.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47-225x95.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1654\/2022\/04\/Picture47-350x148.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":799,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-257","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":176,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/257\/revisions\/395"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/176"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/257\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcbiol322\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}