Search results for "Opposable" - New World Encyclopedia
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- feet adapted for grasping and including opposable thumbs, comparatively flattened ... Lemurs have opposable thumbs and long grasping toes, but their tails ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2022
- long, naked tail; a long, pointed snout; opposable thumbs in the hands and ... on the ground) and the hind feet have an opposable digit with no claw. Like ...20 KB (2,863 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- 1966, OCLC 504396). Humans have an opposable thumb—useful in holding tools—and increased dramatically in intelligence, which aided in the ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:21, 18 April 2023
- legs, with elongated and hook shaped hands, and opposable thumbs, which are not used for swinging in the trees (Geissmann 2006c). They are unique among ...12 KB (1,738 words) - 16:17, 25 January 2023
- fingers of each hand are set apart and are opposable to the other three. Members of Alouatta have completely black faces (Strier 2004). ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 19:31, 7 February 2024
- Colugos are surprisingly clumsy climbers. Lacking opposable thumbs and not being especially strong, they proceed upwards in a series of slow ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- otariids and phocids. As noted, the former have opposable hind flippers that can be placed flat on the ground to aid locomotion. True seals, on the other ...15 KB (2,167 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- otarids and phocids, with the otarids' opposable hind flippers that can be placed flat on the ground aiding locomotion. After giving birth ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- Koalas' five digits are arranged with opposable thumbs, providing better gripping ability. The first two digits are positioned in apposition ...19 KB (2,896 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- hands adapted for grasping (including opposable thumbs), comparatively ... using their hands, aided especially by opposable thumbs. ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- unusual in that their thumbs (though not opposable) and human-like hands give ... claws. The raccoon's paws lack an opposable thumb and thus it does ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- humans are the proportion of arms and legs, opposable thumbs, body hair, skin pigmentation, and size of the central nervous system, such as the forebrain. ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- human with arms supporting four fingers and an opposable thumb and with legs terminating in the five-toed foot, to the horse with four legs terminating ...79 KB (11,963 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
