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Boris, the prehensile-tailed porcupine, had better luck -- he was paired with Chris, who had a stash of snacks.
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Clever PBS brought a lemur, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, and a Chihuahua to the tour Thursday.
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Thus, the hotspot contains classic examples of relatively recent adaptive radiation typical of oceanic islands, such as the white-eyes (family Zosteropidae) and monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae), but also carries some odd colonizers from times past such as the giant prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata), whose closest living relatives are the blue-tongued skinks (genus Tiliqua) of Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
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Other species include giant armadillo Priodontes maximuss (EN), paca Cuniculus paca and prehensile-tailed porcupine Coendou bicolor.
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The region also has six endemic genera of reptiles; five of these are each represented by a single species, including the large prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata), a lizard that lives in trees and feeds primarily on the leaves of epiphytes.
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In the latter none of these occur; but the prehensile-tailed Cuscus is almost the only terrestrial mammal seen, except wild pigs, which are found in all the islands, and deer (which have probably been recently introduced) in Celebes and the Moluccas.
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Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the forests of the Upper Amazon — graceful sahuis, horned sapajous, gray-coated monos, sagouins which seem to wear a mask on their grimacing faces — the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric.
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This is a South American prehensile-tailed porcupine.
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Imperialism is a chameleon, a 'prehensile-tailed' animal, adept at changing its color.
Guide to Imperialism Barraclough, Geoffrey 1969
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These prehensile-tailed monkeys are a great favorite at the zoos because of their breathtaking agility.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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