Toque Macaque (Macaca sinica) is a primate mammal in the Cercopithecidae family on monkeys, including the Baboon, Mandrill, Colobus, Vervet, and Macaque.
The Toque Macaque has reddish-brown hair and a white belly. It has a tuft of hair on the crown of its head. It has a hairless face that becomes pink as it ages. Its long tail has a black tuft of hair at its tip.
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What does brachiating mean?
Brachiating is a form or arboreal locomotion – a means of travelling in trees. Primates that live in trees, such as monkeys, move from branch to branch as they travel among the trees, instead of climbing down to the ground and then climbing up the next tree.
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The Brown-Headed Spider Monkey (Ateles fusciceps robustus) is a primate mammal in the Atelidae family of howler and spider monkeys.
The Brown-Headed Spider Monkey has a brown furry body – with shaggy fur – and a brown head. It has a pinkish to light-brown face with no hair and large brown eyes. It is very long, thin limbs, long thin fingers, and a long, prehensile tail, which makes it look like a long-legged spider.
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The Binturong (Arctictis binturong) is an arboreal mammal in the Viverridae family. It is a viverrid. It is also known as a Bearcat, but it not related to bears and it is not related to cats. It is closely related to the Palm Civet.
It is arboreal, which means that it lives in trees. To help it climb, it has a prehensile tail, sharp claws, and an unusual way of climbing down trees. Its tail is long, bushy, curls inwards at the end, and is prehensile – it can wrap around branches. Its five toes have long claws that are suitable for climbing.
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The Arboreal Ratsnake (Gonyosoma oxycephalum) is a reptile in the Colubridae family of ratsnakes. It is also known as the Red-Tailed Green Ratsnake and the Red-Tailed Racer.
The Arboreal Ratsnake is green and long, with wide smooth scales on its belly. It has smaller, smooth scales on its back. The top of its head may be green, yellow-green, or yellow. Some have a reddish-brown tail. It has a dark horizontal line through its eyes. Its tongue is black and often with brown or blue on the sides.
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How long does it take for a sloth to digest its food?
The Sloth is a mammal in the sub-order Folivora. It is native to the tropical rainforests of Central America and South America. It is arboreal, meaning that it lives in trees. It is also nocturnal, mostly active at night.
It does not have many teeth; only 4-5 pairs of teeth. It has canine teeth, but no incisor teeth. It eats mainly leaves, so it does not need sharp incisors. Some sloths are omnivorous, eating leaves, insects, fruit, and small dead animals.
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Gibbons plan ahead for breakfast to beat out their rivals and competitors. This is the view of scientists studying Gibbon behaviour, who maintain that the reason they plan ahead is to get the best breakfast spots.
Scientists say that the Gibbons remember the locations of the best food and they go to these locations earlier than other animals when they want to eat fruit for breakfast.
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How do Woodpeckers identify each other?
In addition to sight, bird species identify each other through their songs and calls. Birds of the same species can recognize who is calling and what the call means.
The Woodpecker is an arboreal (tree-living) bird in the Picidae family of piculets, wrynecks, woodpeckers, and sapsuckers.
The Woodpecker does not have as wide a range of songs as songbirds, called passerines. However, it does have a range of calls and noises to communicate with other Woodpeckers. It makes simpler noises, such as brief trills, twitters, and whistles. Therefore, it uses another method to identify each other.
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In September 2020, the New Scientist magazine reported on research to determine why frogs have evolved big eyes.
Some frogs have the biggest eyes of all vertebrates (animals with backbones), in relation to their body size, and zoologists did not know why. Now researchers have found that the size of the eyes of these vertebrates seems to depend upon their environment.
Eyesight requires a lot of energy to function – focusing, adjusting peripheral vision, calculating distance, determing what the object is, and so on. There is a lot of things the eye must do quickly to ‘see’ what is in front and around it. Scientists think this is why animals living in dark environments, such as caves, often evolve to have smaller eyes.
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The Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis) is a non-venomous reptile in the Pythonidae family of python snakes. It is native to the tropical regions of northern Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
It is bright green with a slim body and a large head. It is arboreal, living in trees. It loops itself over a tree branch, making a coil with its head in the middle.
The shape of a snake’s head can often indicate whether it is venomous or non-venomous. Non-venomous snakes generally have a spoon-shaped, rounded head. Some venomous snakes have a triangular head. The Green Tree Python is non-venomous with a rounded head.
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The juvenile Bornean Orangutan at the Paris Zoo is almost four years old. Java was born on 17 October 2018 to her mother Theodora. Theodora watches Java as she plays on the ropes and beams.
The Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a great ape and a primate mammal in the Hominidae family.
It is native to the rain forests of Borneo. It is arboreal, living in trees.
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What is the heaviest animal that lives in a tree?
An animal that lives in a tree (tree-dwelling) is an arboreal animal.
If an arboreal animal is too heavy, the tree branches might break.
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How long does the Koala sleep each day?
The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal (tree-living) marsupial in the Phascolarctidae family, found in eastern and southern coastal Australia.
The Koala sleeps for 20-22 hours a day. A day is 24 hours, so a Koala sleeps for 83% to 92% of a day.
Why does the Koala need to sleep for so much time?
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The Buff-Tailed Bear Hoverfly (Criorhina floccosa) is an insect in the Syrphidae family of hoverflies. It is a Hoverfly that mimics a Bumblebee (a fly that looks like a bee).
The Buff-Tailed Bear Hoverfly has a long, orange or yellow-to-red hairy mass on its thorax and a broad, flat abdomen with short hairs on top. The female has a buff-coloured rear abdomen. It has tufts of pale hair at the sides of the abdomen, near the base. It has six dark-coloured legs. Like the Housefly, it has large compact eyes and smaller simple eyes.
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The Goodfellow Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus goodfellowi) is the only species of arboreal (tree living) kangaroos in the world. Other kangaroos are terrestrial, living on the ground.
The kangaroo, such as the Goodfellow Tree-Kangaroo, exhibits non-aggressive social behaviour towards other members of their mob (group).
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What is the difference between the Parrot and the Pigeon?
The Parrot and the Pigeon are both species of birds.
The Parrot belongs to six families, whereas the Pigeon belongs to one family. The Parrot families are: Cacatuidae, Nestoridae, Psittacidae, Psittrichasiidae, Psittaculidae, and Strigopidea. The Pigeon is in the Columbidae family.
The Parrot is arboreal, living in trees, whereas the Pigeon can be arboreal, terrestrial (living on the ground), or semi-terrestrial.
The Parrot has a slim, upright body, whereas the Pigeon has a stout body.
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The Tree-Crevice Skink (Egernia striolata) is a reptile in the Scincidae family of skink lizards. It is a squamate. It is also called the Tree Skink.
The Tree-Crevice Skink has a thick, flattened body with small eyes. It has 26-36 rows of scales. It is dark-black to grey-brown with a pale stripe of scales down its body from its head to its tail. Its underbelly is pale or cream-coloured. It eyes have vertical, narrow pupils.
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Do Peacocks (or Peafowl) live in trees?
Peafowl are collectively male Peacocks and female Peahens, but mostly people say Peacocks.
The Indian Peacock (Pavo cristatus), native to India and Sri Lanka, is a large bird in the Phasianidae family.
It has a long train of tail feathers. It can fly, but not very high and not very far. It usually just flutters for a short distance after a few hops or leaps.
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The Western Gentle Lemur (Hapalemur occidentalis) is an arboreal primate mammal in the Lemuridae family. It is also known as the Western Lesser Bamboo Lemur and the Sambirano Lesser Bamboo Lemur.
The Western Gentle Lemur has thick, grey-beige to ginger-brown fur. It has long legs, especially long back legs for leaping. It is a leaper. It has a small pink-brown nose, small rounded ears, and large orange-brown eyes.
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The White-Belted Ruffed Lemur (Varecia veriegata subcincta) is an arboreal (tree-living) primate mammal in the Lemuridae family of lemurs. It is a sub-species of the Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur. It is also known as the Northern Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur.
The White-Belted Ruffed Lemur has fluffy black and white fur. Its stomach, tail, hands and feet, forehead, face, and crown are black. It is white on the sides, back, and back legs. It has a distinct white belt around the middle of its body. It has a black nose, small ears, and bright orange eyes. Its tail is long, black, and bushy.
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