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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. ==In fiction and mythology== * In the ''Saga of Erik the Red'', a native of Vinland who is described as being one-legged kills one of Eric's men (his brother). In the children's fiction book ''They Came on Viking Ships'' by Jackie French, a uniped is a one-legged Norse mythical creature that lived in the south of Vinland during the time of the expedition of Freydís Eiríksdóttir.〔Kunz 2008, p. 47.〕 * The sciapod was another mythical one-legged humanoid. * In Japanese mythology and folklore some yokai such as the karakasa-obake and the ippon-datara have one leg. * There are also one legged creatures in ''Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee''. In ''The Adventures of Gomby and Son'', Gomby meets a traveller at the Forest of Zann who is unileg. * In the Narnia book ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' by C. S. Lewis the heroes meet the "Dufflepuds". These are two legged dwarfs who have been rendered one legged by their magical master. He did this to force them to use the water from the stream next to their food garden, rather than walking miles to get the water. * In Brazilian folklore, there is a mythical uniped called "Saci" who appears in several tales and is associated with dustdevils. Colombian folklore has a female version of this monster, the Patasola. * In Maya mythology, God K and his equivalents are represented with one leg.〔Freidel et al. 1993, pp.199-200.〕 One of these equivalents is the K'iche' Maya storm deity Huracan, whose name means one-leg.〔Christenson 2003, 2007, p.60.n.62.〕 * In the book Expedition some of the animals on the fictional planet Darwin IV have one leg. * In ''The Future Is Wild'', one of the animals, the desert hopper, a scaly-skinned , chameleon-eyed snail, is unipedal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unipedalism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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