In a darkened forest of central Colombia, a 2-foot-long mammal climbed a tree and paused to rest its “completely spiny” body. Its elusive lifestyle and cryptic appearance largely helped it go ...

Howlers also boast a prehensile tail. They can use this tail as an extra arm to grip or even hang from branches—no Old World monkeys have such a tail. A gripping tail is particularly helpful to ...

Far up a giant Amazon jungle tree, a large howler monkey walked among the branches. As it stepped from branch to branch, its long tail would wrap around a convenient trunk providing extra stability.

While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

Klipspringer is a small and agile antelope. It is known for its excellent jumping ability and a compact body. This animal is ...

weighing the same as a 2p coin and the only UK mammal to have an entirely prehensile tail. Laura Snell, conservation officer at the wildlife trust, said harvest mice were under recorded in ...

They have the same number of cervical vertebrae as many other mammals (seven), but cats ... greater level of control are referred to as prehensile tails and they act as an additional appendage.

This is the tail of a veiled chameleon; it’s a prehensile tail, meaning it’s able to grasp and hold onto objects. In the wild, these lizards live most of their lives in the trees and use their tails ...

The harvest mouse is the only UK mammal to have an entirely prehensile tail Four harvest mouse nests have been found at a wind farm in Cornwall. A survey by Cornwall Mammal Group was carried out ...

The harvest mouse is Europe's smallest mammal, weighing the same as a 2p coin and the only UK mammal to have an entirely prehensile tail. Laura Snell, conservation officer at the wildlife trust, said ...