Unipedalism Unipedalism The term uniped (from Latin "uni" = one + "ped" = foot) refers to a person or creature with only one foot and one leg, as contrasted with a biped (two legs) and a quadruped (four legs). Moving using only one leg is known as unipedal movement. Many bivalvia and nearly all gastropoda molluscs have evolved only one foot. Through accidents (i.e. amputation) or birth abnormalities it is also possible for an animal or a human being to end up with only a single leg. One major study of mythological unipeds is Teresa Pàroli (2009): 'How many are the
Animal Rights Without Liberation do not have an interest in liberty or not being used by others, and so have no "prima facie" right to freedom. They do, however, possess significant interests in not being made to suffer and in not being killed, and so have a "prima facie" right not to be made to suffer and a "prima facie" right not to be killed. "Animal Rights Without Liberation" seeks to decouple animal rights from animal liberation. For Cochrane, of central importance is the question of sentience, understood as "the capacity for phenomenal consciousness". No position is taken on precisely how many animals are