These birds had grown so tame, as to take food freely out of the hand of anyone who offered it to them; and with like freedom, to take it where it was not offered, but found within reach of their long prehensile beaks.
Before the panda could make the slightest effort to get away from the ground, the elephant had lapped its prehensile proboscis around it, and lifted it into the air as if its body had been no heavier than a feather.
The massive creature, though it moved about with apparently a gentle griding step, could go almost as fast as a galloping horse; and should it espy them in time, there would be but slight chance of eluding its prehensile trunk.
Her face was of the prognathic type, and this, with her extraordinary prehensile powers of feet and lips, gave her the title of "Darwin's missing link.
He had free movement of the shoulders in every direction and could grasp objects between his cheeks and his acromian process; the prehensile power of the toes was well developed, as he could pick up a coin thrown to him.
Guenther suspects that they are brought into action as prehensile organs by the doubling inwards and downwards of the two sides of the body.
Labidocera Darwinii, prehensile organs of the male, i.
When the sexes differ in more important structures, it is the male which is provided with special sense-organs for discovering the female, with locomotive organs for reaching her, and often with prehensile organs for holding her.
He rose to his feet, his long, prehensile fingers curled into fists.
A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles.
They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws.
The more or less prehensile tail with which thoroughly aquatic snakes, such as Hydrophis and Acrochordus, are provided, is no doubt of use in facilitating the pairing, when it has to take place in the water.
Intelligence was next to be lifted to higher levels, and the order of mammals with greatest prehensile capacities, the primates with their incipient hands, were the most favourable subjects in which to carry on this process.
These comminuting or crushing organs are only a repetition of the act of prehension, and consequently belong to the prehensile or biting organs.
Lastly, the prehensile organs dwindle down into mere filaments or small lobes, but the body always retains its cylindrical form without keel and sole, as in the Ascidiæ or Meerscheiden.
You might as well ask why man cannot clutch a perch with his foot after the manner of a bird or a monkey, for the response would be the same--his foot was made for walking, and not for prehensile purposes.
Their hands and feet are split so that they grip the branches firmly, and the prehensile tail rivals a monkey's.
See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.
A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary.
Of all the monkey tribe the ateles are those that have mostprehensile power in their tails.
It then fell over, still clutching the branch with its strong, prehensile claws; but after hanging a moment, these too relaxed, and the body fell heavily to the ground.
Its body is entirely different from the "ateles" monkeys, being stouter and covered with a fuller coat of hair; and its tail is large and bushy, without any prehensile power.
His nap had brought a return of appetite; and the wait-a-bit thorns showed the marks of his prehensile trunk.
The tall giraffe, with his prehensile lip, raised nearly twenty feet in the air, can browse upon these trees without difficulty.
It is a very small creature--not larger than the common grey squirrel--with a prehensile tail like the tamandua.
They pursue the ants that build their nests upon the high branches, as well as the wasps and bees; and to befit them for this life, they are furnished with naked prehensile tails, like the opossums and monkeys.
The foot itself is flexible, and has great prehensile power.
The great toe sets at an angle from the side of the foot, like a thumb, but has more prehensile power than that of the hand; but the foot is much less flexible, and has less prehensile power.
Defn: Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails.
Defn: A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles.
Defn: Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having very long legs and a long prehensile tail.
Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.
They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles.
Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end.
Defn: The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
His mind is not prehensile like the tail of the Apollo Bundar; everything eludes its grasp, so its pursuits are terminable.
The Spider Monkey, like the Capuchin, has a long prehensile tail, which it uses like a fifth hand.
The Complemental males of certain cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and prehensile limbs.
In the males of the Diplopoda, the legs belonging to one of the anterior segments of the body, or to the posterior segment, are modified into prehensile hooks which serve to secure the female.
With some savages, however, the foot has not altogether lost its prehensile power, as shewn by their manner of climbing trees and of using them in other ways.
It is a much more unusual circumstance, as we shall see when we treat of Insects, that it is the female in Lithobius which is furnished with prehensile appendages at the extremity of the body for holding the male.
Whole chapters could easily be filled with details on the differences between the sexes in their sensory, locomotive, and prehensile organs.
Part of right-hand anterior antenna of male, forming a prehensile organ.
When the male has found the female he sometimes absolutely requires prehensile organs to hold her; thus Dr.
The Mycetinæ are the largest monkeys of America, nearly three feet in body length, with longprehensile tails.
It has small piggy eyes, and its most characteristic feature is a queer flexible snout prolonged some inches beyond the jaw, but apparently without the prehensile powers of the elephant's trunk.
As a prehensileorgan it has reached the summit of strength and perfection.
It is almost superfluous to add how dubious is the assertion that the Arguatoes and other Monkeys with prehensile tails form a sort of chain, in order to reach the opposite side of a river.
In the tail there are twenty-three vertebrae, flattened on the under side, and exceptionally provided with bony processes, serving as points for the attachment of muscles for rendering it as efficient a prehensile organ as possible.
The Sakis form the second section of the present Sub-family, and are characterised by their long, thick, and bushy non-prehensile tail.
They possess four limbs and a tail, which may be long, short, or concealed, and which is often used as a prehensile organ.
Their flattened nose, with its wide partition between the nostrils, and their non-prehensile bushy tails, are also distinguishing characters.
The tail thus modified is a powerful prehensile organ and serves for a fifth hand.
And after a moment's hesitation he stretched out his hand and began to stroke the great, prehensile organ that was now passed over his shoulders and down his sides.
