Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, the scansorial foot.
Defn: Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidæ.
It is unquestionably the Rasorial and Scansorial genus of the Sub-family Sylvianae, as there pointed out, and of which Orthotomus is a sub-genus, or type of form.
All the Scansorial Picarians are essentially tree-haunters; and the tree-haunting and climbing habit seems specially favorable to the growth of intellect.
The mostly sneaking and scansorial Martens and Viverræ.
These animals live upon fruits and beetles, and are by their scansorial feet destined to live upon trees.
The next species is smaller and more vermiform, with acute compressed claws, a shorter tail, and no crest, and of more scansorial habits.
He goes on to add: "The anterior limbs are decidedly fossorial, and the hinder suited for walking in a sub-plantigrade manner; both wholly unfitted for rapatory or scansorial purposes.
As implied above the brush mouse is adapted for a scansorial mode of life; but other mice and rats inhabit the rocky crevices of low bluffs.
If long tail and large eyes are specializations for a scansorial mode of life (discussed below), then P.
The toucan (Ramphastos) belongs to the genus ofscansorial birds.
The sub-genus Chlorisses, in reference to Ornithology, is a scansorial type.
To the first they are allied by their strong scansorial feet; to the latter by the length and fixed position of the hind toe, and the depression of the bill.
