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Prehensility affords animals a great natural advantage in manipulating their environment for feeding, climbing,
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and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems"
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animals have been interpreted as having prehensile tails, including several
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Quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding
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Human feet prehensility example, done with everyday objects
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