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DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests
Their tail is considered to be semi-prehensile since it lacks the characteristic dermal padding that other true prehensile tails have. Ring-tailed Lemurs Ring-tailed lemurs are a species ...
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Black Howler Monkey
Legs are shorter and stouter than those of the spider monkeys. The powerful prehensile tails are naked on the underside. The angle of their lower jaws makes it possible for ...
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The Monkey House
Their tails are used for balance as opposed to New World monkeys that have prehensile tails for grasping. Old World monkeys are sociable and are ...
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About Opossums
Their tails range from slightly to very prehensile, allowing them to use their tail like a fifth limb. Both the flexible toes and prehensile tails assist in helping them climb. Prehensile Tail Typically, the ... tail the more the opossum lives in the trees. The opossum species with the longest tails (exceeding the length of their entire bodies) can even hang from trees by their tail ...
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Wild World Glossary
Neotropic realm. The Earth is made up of eight realms ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Binturong
The real meaning of the word binturong is lost ... bear's, long, shaggy black hair, stiff white whiskers, and a prehensile tail that is as long as its body. Binturongs, also called ... a tree headfirst. Their prehensile tails are used like an extra hand when climbing around in the treetops. The tails are muscular at the base ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Monkey
These special tails are ridged on the underside and very flexible, so much so that they can grab a tree branch or pick up something as small as a peanut! Prehensile tails ... New World monkeys do not. Tails— Some New World monkeys, such as spider monkeys, have prehensile tails, but Old World monkeys do not. Baby life Groups of monkeys, called troops, travel together ...
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Keeping Marsupials : Keeping and Breeding Marsupials in Captivity, Maintaining Injured and Orphaned Wildlife in Captivity, Animal Husbandry, Australian Marsupials, Australian Mammals, Marsupial Conservation
It is also semi prehensile. Of the subspecies, T. v. johnstoni is known as the Copper Possum, because of its ... a characteristic tapering tail which is white at the end. Both possums can curl their tails to grip branches. Although brushtail possums have disappeared from much of their range in the ...
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Keeping Marsupials : Keeping and Breeding Marsupials in Captivity, Maintaining Injured and Orphaned Wildlife in Captivity, Animal Husbandry, Australian Marsupials, Australian Mammals, Marsupial Conservation
It is also semi prehensile. Of the subspecies, T. v. johnstoni is known as the Copper Possum, because of its ... a characteristic tapering tail which is white at the end. Both possums can curl their tails to grip branches. Although brushtail possums have disappeared from much of their range in the ...
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Monkey Maddness - Species Specific Information - Squirrel Monkeys
Head & Body: 10.5 to 14" Tail: 14 to 16.5", non-prehensile Lifespan: 15 to 25 years in captivity Squirrel Monkeys are slender bodied and their face ... should be avoided so they will not get sores on the top sides of their tails at the base. The sores are a result of them sitting with their tail wrapped ...
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