Prehensile

Prehensile

The ability to physically grasp something. All primates have prehensile hands. With the exception of humans, they all also have effective prehensile feet. The larger New World monkeys (Cebidae) have prehensile tails as well. Some marsupials living in the eastern islands of Indonesia and New Guinea also have this characteristic.

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