ABSTRACT
Examples of plantigrade animals are prairie dogs, raccoons, opossums, bears, kangaroos, weasels, mice, pandas, rats, squirrels, skunks, and hedgehogs. The similarity in proportion and anatomy to humans makes the plantigrades the easiest of mammals to understand and therefore draw. The author have also illustrated the FORCE shape of the grizzly and presented the three main movements of FORCE in the body and the small one for the upturned front of the muzzle. These Alaskan brown bears are large! They can weigh upwards of 1,500 pounds and stand around 9 feet tall. Again, plantigrades are some of the easier animals to draw due to this more direct comparison to human anatomy. Scientists have discovered that polar bears are descendants of brown bears. Yup, rodents belong to the plantigrade class of mammals.
