This 300-year-old tree was a rare mutant, a sort of arboreal albino that had long been sacred to the native Haida community. |
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The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent that nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes. |
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The lowland rainforests of the Indonesian island of Java are perfect places for an arboreal, leaf-green snake to ply its predatory trade. |
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They are mainly arboreal, preferring to stay in the trees and larger shrubs. |
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Funds permitting, there are also plans to set up some structures atop the trees as the chimps are very much adapted to an arboreal life. |
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Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes. |
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Many small and some large tetrapods with no obvious arboreal features can get into trees. |
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Many of the cribellate species are distinctly arboreal, building their small webs on branch tips. |
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Conceived as a manmade forest dappled by sunlight, the galleria's laminated timber structure has a distinctly arboreal quality. |
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Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes on their hind feet. |
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It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat. |
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Slim, arboreal columns and roof beams allude to the ficus trees that run along the western boundary of the site. |
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Their many wild habitats include palm trees, tree holes, arboreal epiphytes, burrows, rock crevices, or other animal refuges. |
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The arboreal habitats of anoles are composed primarily of short perches separated in space. |
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The policy will help to better protect and develop the city's arboreal heritage, which includes more than 675,000 public trees. |
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Mature forests with arboreal lichens are scarce except in national parks and nature. |
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Now he shares his excitement for arboreal treasures through maps of tree trails he designs for public use. |
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Set in a forest clearing, its arboreal form was inspired by the surrounding trees. |
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At first, small theropods such as Sinosauropteryx invaded arboreal habitats to elude predators. |
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Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion. |
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With nearly 1,100 species of indigenous trees, South Africa is extremely rich in arboreal diversity. |
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This catalogue of arboreal treasures stands as a tribute to majestic specimens of nature that are the largest of their kind. |
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In France a chestnut-lined street in a town just west of Paris became known in the mid-nineteenth century for its arboreal restaurants. |
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The sport has caught on at the University of Utah, where arboreal slacklining had to be banned and special poles set up. |
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The endangered orang-utans live wild only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and are the largest arboreal mammals on earth. |
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The arboreal lizard of C. and S. America, Iguana iguana, is the archetype but other members of the New World family Iguanidae bear the name. |
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The Brush-tailed Phascogale, also known as the Tuan, is a small, nocturnal, arboreal, carnivorous marsupial. |
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It seemed that I was still in thrall to an ophidiophobia that dated back to my arboreal primate ancestors. |
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Many species are fully terrestrial, many are arboreal, and at least one species, yapoks, is semi-aquatic. |
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However, if present day anthropoids are any indication, early primates were quick to take advantage of these new arboreal plant foods. |
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For example, it is hypothesized that birds must have evolved flight from trees, so their ancestors must have been arboreal. |
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Some mammals, like tree pangolins and tamanduas eat arboreal ants and termites. |
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We observed birds entering arboreal termitaria at dusk, presumably to roost. |
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The African Chiromantis builds arboreal foam nests, which may be, in part, made of seminal fluid. |
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Gibbons are arboreal apes who live in the tropical rain forests of southeast Asia. |
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Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda. |
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The arboreal primates are often monogamous and provide an additional source of context for human pair-bonding. |
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It is thought to be nocturnal, arboreal and eat fruit and insects, like other mouse opossums of the genus Marmosops. |
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During summer and autumn, jays routinely make hundreds of food caches per day, placing each saliva-coated bolus in a separate arboreal site. |
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It may be that they are just envious of our arboreal and hunting skills, our nimbleness and adaptability, and our ability to see in the dark. |
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Coendou and Sphiggurus are arboreal animals, with long, spineless, prehensile tails and wide foot pads. |
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The first 2 digits of their forefeet are opposable to the other three in the more arboreal species. |
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The cebids are all primarily arboreal and exhibit a number of different social systems. |
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For a strictly arboreal species like the hoolock gibbon, a gap in the canopy is like a roadblock. |
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Some of the most distinctive ecosites in the area are the most intriguing from an arboreal standpoint, and help to define the ecodistrict. |
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This was thought to be an adaptation to arboreal life, but it didn't make much sense. |
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Its restricted distribution and dependence on a very specialized habitat render this arboreal snake particularly vulnerable to overexploitation. |
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Though they are mostly arboreal, the size increase in some species has resulted in more terrestrial forms. |
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Due to the orangutans' semi-solitary and arboreal nature, it is impossible to monitor each individual every day. |
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They are typically arboreal animals living at different levels of the canopy, depending on environmental temperature. |
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Well-adapted arboreal mammals frequently are plantigrade, five-toed, and equipped with highly mobile limbs. |
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The Barrow's Goldeneye is an arboreal duck, which means that it lays its eggs in natural cavities in trees. |
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All provinces have established arboreal emblems and this emblem is an important element within the family of national symbols. |
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The Namai zone belongs to the birds, tall trees and arboreal mammals. |
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Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees. |
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Critics of the theropod hypotheses usually advocate a thecodont origin of birds, an aerodynamic origin of feathers, and an arboreal origin of flight. |
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The low number of contacts with the surrounding vegetation may be important in reducing the probability that smaller arboreal predators will access the nest tree. |
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It's a cozy, arboreal kitchen — with soft chairs and potted plants, and a wine rack nearby. |
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Now, little arboreal species and bigger monkeys, like the hominoids, are part of that order. |
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Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal, rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces. |
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It was sad that such an ardent nemophilist should be afraid in the forest,but that was because Histah the snake and Sheeta the panther were also arboreal. |
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Guans and perhaps chachalacas may be more arboreal than curassows. |
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More than 800 people saw a pre-festival viewing of the one-hour documentary that showcases American history through the stories of 21 historic arboreal treasures. |
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As such, Darwinius has been interpreted as a generalized arboreal quadruped that was not particularly specialized for leaping. |
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In the long term, we plan to create a community amenity in the form of a lake and native arboreal area. |
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Selection on an arboreal ape population will be impotent if variations which improve their terrestrial prospects are sparse. |
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Giant arboreal slums of boomers now sit at the top of every establishment tree, not least the media. |
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Given that humanity's arboreal simian ancestors would presumably have had little need to run, it is probably the latter. |
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Intricate pulley-systems and rope-bridges connect the trees into an arboreal village. |
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Bwindi gorillas live at lower elevations and are more arboreal than gorillas of the Virungas. |
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Baldocchi notes that other researchers are studying issues including global photosynthesis, vineyard water management and arboreal forest cycles. |
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This area includes cerrado and gallery forests where arboreal termite nests are abundant. |
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These data allowed me to determine the effects of geographic heterogeneity at macro and micro-spatial scales on arboreal size and distribution. |
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Indeed, the trait is so useful for arboreal life that it is used by many avian palaeontologists to decide whether newly excavated species of fossil birds lived in trees or on the ground. |
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The nails of burrowing species tend to be long and strong, while arboreal rodents have shorter, sharper nails. |
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The movement of snakes in arboreal habitats has only recently been studied. |
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Many arboreal species, such as tree porcupines, silky anteaters, spider monkeys, and possums, use prehensile tails to grasp branches. |
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Trees such as the pin oak, the shagbark hickory, the linden, and the sugar maple are the arboreal equivalent of the high school student council. |
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An outline to create a booklet of Canada's arboreal emblems was launched. |
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Among the few arboreal mammals are two species of nonnative monkeys that flourish in forests of the New Territories, the rhesus macaque and the long-tailed macaque. |
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New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts. |
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For marmosets and tamarins the volume of available space and the vertical height of the enclosure are more important than floor area, due to the arboreal nature and the vertical flight reaction of these species. |
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Dormice are almost completely arboreal in habit but much less reluctant to cross open ground than was thought even recently. |
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At that time a cold reversal caused a replacement of much of the arboreal vegetation with Magellanic moorland and Alpine species. |
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Generally, vision is best in arboreal snakes and weakest in burrowing snakes. |
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Unlike those of other arboreal marsupials, its pouch opens rearward. |
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Here, we report and comment on arboreal termite nest geophagy by the Yellow-chevroned Parakeet during the excavation of nest cavities. |
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For example, we have re-established a corridor of native trees and vegetation appropriate for the area, which will encourage arboreal wildlife such as koalas and opossums. |
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The hazel dormouse requires a variety of arboreal foods to survive. |
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New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail. |
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Just recently I have successfully developed two hexagon terrariums both for arboreal and terrestrial tarantulas to replace the more traditional Pentagonal unit. |
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This enables them to lead more arboreal lifestyles, such as climbing or running on tree branches, although they are also relatively quick runners on the ground. |
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A primary and persistently ground-living form does not develop fourhandedness. The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life. |
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