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- Brachiators are a type of primate mostly from the family Hylobatidae, which includes gibbons. Brachiators use their arms to move from tree branch to tree...
- classify gibbons and siamangs as the only true brachiators and classify the great apes as modified brachiators. All other brachiation behaviours that do not...
- Gibbons are very good brachiators because their elongated limbs enable them to easily swing and grasp on to branches....
- swinging with the arms from one handhold to another. Only a few species are brachiators, and all of these are primates; it is a major means of locomotion among...
- significant increase in competition. Gibbons are among nature's best brachiators. Their ball-and-socket wrist joints allow them unmatched speed and accuracy...
- all locomotion functionality has been lost in humans while predominant brachiators, such as the gibbons, have very reduced thumbs and inflexible wrists...
- variants, and the ****es also hardly differ in size. Gibbons are true brachiators, propelling themselves through the forest by swinging under the branches...
- also been observed engaging in geophagy. All members of Ateles are semi-brachiators, and this species has an intermembral index of 105. They have a fairly...
- Dusona bicolor (Brischke, 1880) Dusona bicoloripes (Ashmead, 1906) Dusona brachiator (Say, 1835) Dusona brevicornis (Brischke, 1880) Dusona brevisocrea Gupta...