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Definition of Scansorial tail

Scansorial tail
Scansorial Scan*so"ri*al, a. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under Aves. Scansorial tail (Zo["o]l.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers.

Meaning of Scansorial tail from wikipedia

- evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally (scansorial), but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose numerous mechanical...
- D.B.; et al. (1991). "Aspects of the use of den trees by arboreal and scansorial marsupials inhabiting montane ash forests in Victoria". Australian Journal...
- or five. Pacarana have 4 limbs and large heads. They are considered a scansorial species. When they eat, they grasp their food with their fore-paws while...
- forelimbs and tail". Ancestral morphology relating to pennaceous feathers suggests that basal species of Pennaraptora were capable of scansorial locomotion...
- morphology of two Jur****ic lizard species and the early evolution of scansoriality in geckoes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1111/zoj...
- new robust enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China with scansorial adaptations". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (3): 657–671. Bibcode:2014JVPal...
- opossum at 4–7 kg (8.8–15.4 lb), was a macropredator. Most opossums are scansorial, well-adapted to life in the trees or on the ground, but members of the...
- the two latter genera and so was likely not arboreal but potentially scansorial. It is ambiguous whether the mammal had been predated upon or scavenged...
- membership of the Docodonta and the agility. The specific name refers to the scansorial lifestyle. Qing-Jin Meng; Qiang Ji; Yu-Guang Zhang; Di Liu; David M. Grossnickle;...
- limited. It occurs in lowland rainforest and is probably arboreal or scansorial (climbing in vegetation). It is nocturnal and solitary and may eat fruits...