Also, Wheeler explains that a vertical posture minimizes the direct exposure to the sun whereas quadrupedalism exposes more of the body to direct exposure.

"Tangent" contrasted tall, vertical postures with hurtlings from side to side.

Generally brownish birds, the true woodcreepers maintain an upright vertical posture, supported by their stiff tail vanes.

The vertical posture will also keep the bristles from creeping under the stencil.

It took as long as twenty four hours to manoeuvre itself into its usual, near vertical posture and reattach itself.

They were not extreme mutants; rather they were deformed in limbs and torso, so that normal vertical posture was not satisfactory to them.

It is characterized by quick, tiny steps, an exaggeratedly straight vertical posture, and a facial expression combined of equal parts of indignation and suffering.

Bridge experts frequently stand on their heads, in a technical way, if they are convinced that a normal vertical posture offers no hope.

While we see Baltar's perspective, everyone else only sees a limp Baltar rising to a vertical posture.

The semicircular canals (brown, see figure) are arranged at angles to the horizontal plane of the head when it is in its normal vertical posture.