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Like most cursorial species, or animals that run, including dogs and horses, we have a well-developed nuchal ligament, a tissue that connects the skull and neck.

“Wolves have really been touted as the best type of animal to remove infected deer, because they are cursorial — they chase their prey and they look for the weak ones,” said Ms. Brandell.

Humans and dogs became the designated cursorial, or distance running, species.

New Zealand has no indigenous mammalia, but in their place great cursorial birds with but rudimentary wings.

As yet, the hyracodonts have been found only in North America, and the last genus of the series, Hyracodon, was a cursorial animal.