I am an Animal, what am I?

Question

In the dawn of day I walk on four legs, by mid-day I walk on two, and in the fading light of day I walk on three. What am I???

In the dawn of day I walk on four legs, by mid-day I walk on two, and in the fading light of day I walk on three. What am I???

Best answer goes to the one who can also name the riddle. (it has a true name).

Answer 1

Taken from Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Human Destiny:

"After wrecking havoc in Thebes, a strange, winged creature with face of a woman, the body of a dog, the tail of serpent and the paws of a lion stationed itself atop a hillock along a desert road. It would throw this riddle at any unsuspecting traveller. "Who is the being to walk on four legs at morn, on two as the day grows and on three in the evening?" The traveller is given time till the sundown. Should he be able to answer, he could pass. If not, the creature pounced upon him and killed him. No traveller escaped death until the day Oedipus happened to reach the spot. "I am the answer", he said when confronted by the terrible creature, and explained, "Man the infant crawls on all fours at the dawn of his life; then he walks normally on two legs; in the evening of his life he takes recourse to a walking stick,
his third leg." No sooner had the hero answered the riddle than the enigmatic examiner, the Sphinx, jumped to its own death.

Unmistakable is the wisdom sealed in this famous Grecian-Roman myth, a version of the Upanishadic doctrine: Man dies because he does not know himself. The day he has known himself, it is death that would die! (The bizare composition of Sphinx, according to one symbolism, indicated its own unreality)."

Answer 2

Human

»"In the dawn of day I walk on four legs"- when your a baby.

»"by mid-day I walk on two"- an adult

»"fading light of day I walk on three"- when your a old man you walk with the help of a cane.

Answer 3

Human

Answer 4

A man. Four legs in the morning =crawling as a baby. Two legs=well, two legs as an adult. Three legs= an old man with a cane.

Answer 5

Riddle of the Sphinx

A (wo)man. Crawling on all fours as a baby, walking on two feet as a grown person, and hobbling on a cane as an old person.

Answer 6

Human? The parts of day represent life~~A human crawls, walks, then walks with a cane.

Answer 7

The Riddle of the Sphinx, human.

Answer 8

A human being

Answer 9

a HOMOSAPIEN
in the begiining of his/her life he/she walks with hands and feet altogether
in the midst of his/her life he/she walks with just his/her feet.
in the fading light or older years of his/her life they walk with canes.

i maybe to late to answer the question but i just wanna prove that i really do know the answer.not just a copycat...
have a nice day!!!

Answer 10

a mutant from 3 mile island