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They move through trees using a prehensile tail for balance and mitten-like feet for a careful, measured stride.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025
Nor is it necessarily true that older political leaders invariably hang on to their seats as if with what Orwell called prehensile behinds.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
With their prehensile lips — they are distantly related to elephants — they grabbed the lettuce and nibbled.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022
Residents of the White House have had fur and feathers, claws and hooves, scales, stripes and prehensile tails.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2020
The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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