I was working on a chimerical creature with the back legs of a goat and a ape’s upper body when the question occurred to me.

Satyrs have a similar configuration, being unguligrade bipeds with hands, but the keyword there is bipeds not quadrupeds. The classical chimera is a quadruped but they have paws and hooves which, while similarly two different limb configurations, both come from completely quadrupedal animals, and primates are facultative bipeds.

So the question is could the creature I described even move about in the first place? A sort of missing link in the Satyr evolutionary line perhaps?

I was working on a chimerical creature with the back legs of a goat and a ape’s upper body when the question occurred to me-how would this beast even walk? I tried looking to mythology for the answer.

Satyrs have a similar body configuration, being unguligrade bipeds with hands, but they are bipedal while my creature is quadrupedal. The classical chimera is a quadruped with two different limb configurations, like the aforementioned creature, but both sets of its limbs come from completely quadrupedal animals, while the creature’s forelimbs are those of a ape’s, which are mostly facultative bipeds.

So the question-how could this creature move about?