arboreal

• “It's actually arboreal, which is quite extraordinary when you think about it.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005

• “Specialist organisms such as arboreal lichens, wood-rotting fungi, and mosses and invertebrates have declined with the decrease in large old trees, snags, and logs.”

  Land tenure and management in the boreal region

• “As opposed to, say, spiders or scorpions I guess you don't need binocular vision to pick those up... or some kind of arboreal predator like huge birds of prey or big cats.”

  Snakes in Primate Vision

• “The poem is part of a kind of arboreal sub-genre within Wordsworth's nature verse and continues the modification of the eighteenth-century Georgic he had previously made in "Yew-Trees" and The Excursion.”

  Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape

• “So I wonder if the reptilean ancestors of the birds had a cursorial or an arboreal approach to early flight ….”

  Think Progress » Texas Education Agency Slams Fox News’s Fearmongering About The State’s Social Studies Curriculum Changes

• “Large brains and other adaptations are later, but it would appear that it may have been the chimps and gorillas who developed adaptations for arboreal life, and in the process shifted to walking on all fours and putting weight on the knuckles of their hands -- rather than these being features that our ancestors shed.”

  October 21st, 2009

• “There's lots to discover locally – the area is honeycombed with caverns – or for crazy arboreal activity, Go Ape, with its zip wires and tarzan swings is half an hour's drive north-west of the farm.”

  The Guardian: The 10 best quirky campsites

• “It's the next best thing to xkcd -- which is saying quite a bit -- and its combination of snark, social commentary, and skewering of pseudoscience is made all the more hilarious by the starring role of two sentient arboreal crustaceans.”

  MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 4)

• “Dr Mary Ann LundSchool of English, University of Leicester• Let's not have a spate of arboreal puns Letters, 22 February.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Knitwear to die for

• “Holten is now an expert on the Concourse arboreal ecology: the tree museum includes a map of the locations and names of some 100 trees, which together cover some 60 species.”

  The Invisible Tree Museum at the Bronx Grand Concourse | Inhabitat

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