tree-living

Though my Shahi are pretty much tree-living elves, I still think of them as human, only with pointy ears.

Transcript: Non-Human Characters « Coyote Con 2010

The kingdoms maintained the roads that linked the empire, if their people were capable of it, which (for instance) the tree-living Hanging People were not.

The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

The kingdoms maintained the roads that linked the empire, if their people were capable of it, which (for instance) the tree-living Hanging People were not.

The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

The primates began as arboreal (tree-living) creatures, and all but some of the larger specimens still are.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

These characters were shown to be typical of arboreal Vertebrates, and their occurrence in forms not arboreal indicated that these were descended from tree-living ancestors.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

_Perameles_, by demonstrating in the foot of present-day Marsupials certain features which could only be interpreted as inherited from a time when the ancestors of Marsupials were tree-living animals.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Like rats deserting a sinking ship, a whole Noah's ark of tree-living creatures was hastening along a single cable shorewards: tree-crickets; ants laden with eggs and larvæ; mantids gesticulating as they walked, like old men who mumble to themselves; wood-roaches, some green and leaf-like, others, facsimiles of trilobites -- but fleet of foot and with one goal.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

If we consider, for instance, the squirrels, one of the best-known groups of tree-living animals, we find them to be members of the great order of rodents, whose native habitat is the land surface.

Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877

"Any number," replied the skipper, "if we could penetrate to where they are; the great tree-living ones, and those water-boas that live among the swamps and pools."

Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870

The evidence indicates that the critics are both right - birds did not evolve either from running dinos or from tree-living mini-crocodiles.

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