Withers
Appearance
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The withers is the ridge atween the shouder blades o an ainimal, for typical a quadruped. In mony species it is the tawest pynt o the bouk, an in horses an dugs it is the staundart place tae meisur the ainimal's heicht. In contrast, kye are normally measured tae the tap o the hips.