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  • Prehensile tongue is right...he's moving it in me, on me, and around me.

    Reciprocation Erin Zulkoski 2011

  • In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat.

    GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward 2008

  • Prehensile coupling cables joined the two ships so that the suspect couldn't fire up secret engines and make a run for it.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Prehensile sez, Seeing the post earlier about Stalin World reminded me of this hella cool statue park just outside of Budapest, which I visited last summer.

    Boing Boing: July 11, 2004 - July 17, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Prehensile lips enabled it to pluck the choicest pieces from holes and cracks in the wood.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Prehensile lips enabled it to pluck the choicest pieces from holes and cracks in the wood.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • - Prehensile-tailed porcupine (Coendou prehensilis), which inhabits Central and South America.

    15 Agouti 1991

  • Each show features different animals, including singing Amazon parrots, hawks and vultures in flight, an exotic Prehensile-tailed porcupine, and "King George" the king cheetah.

    miami.com - 2010

  • New World Monkeys • Distribution: South America • Anatomical features: • Prehensile tail, which can be used as a fifth limb • Quadrupedal (moves on all four limbs) • Strictly arboreal

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Primate Tails • Features that distinguish primate tails: • Tails present or absent • A prehensile tail can be used to grip things Prehensile tail • Furred or not furred • Long or short Long tail No tail

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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