arboreal

• Being arboreal, you see, they had retreated as the water level slowly rose. —  Analog, July/August 2003
• I may perhaps push “protection” too far sometimes, for it is my hobby just now, but as the lion and the tiger are, I think, the only two non-arboreal cats, I think the tiger stripe agreeing so well with its usual habitat is at least a probable case. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
• He had never seen a Xindi arboreal or insectoid, and for a fleeting moment found himself wishing that he were on the kind of mission that would allow him the time to satisfy his natural curiosity about the unknown, to slake his inherent thirst for exploring and asking questions. —  LastFullMeasure
• "We think our theory is a convergence of thought that's a more complex marriage of the arboreal or cursorial camps," Dial said.
• They are related to mongoose, but are nocturnal and arboreal (that's tree dwellers who like the night life).

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