Prehensile is an adjective that defined as (chiefly of an animal’s limb or tail) capable of grasping. An elephant has 1 prehensile body part, his tip of his trunk, which is actually a highly evolved nose. An elephant’s tail is not prehensile.
The New World monkey shown has 5 prehensile parts: its 2 hands, its 2 feet, and its tail. Generally, Old World monkeys don’t have tails; if they do, the tails aren’t prehensile.
jnik23260 about 14 years ago
What’s the other?
ksoskins about 14 years ago
Prehensile is an adjective that defined as (chiefly of an animal’s limb or tail) capable of grasping. An elephant has 1 prehensile body part, his tip of his trunk, which is actually a highly evolved nose. An elephant’s tail is not prehensile.
The New World monkey shown has 5 prehensile parts: its 2 hands, its 2 feet, and its tail. Generally, Old World monkeys don’t have tails; if they do, the tails aren’t prehensile.
alan.gurka about 14 years ago
The elephant may only have one prehensile part, but don’t get it mad or it’ll stomp the snot out of you.
admin about 14 years ago
jnik23260 said, about 8 hours ago
What’s the other?
Only JAD would know what the other one is.
jpozenel about 14 years ago
I’d sure be interested in hearing that “theory”!
Possum Pete about 14 years ago
I’d like to see an elephant hanging from his trunk! It may be a wonder of the animal world but I don’t believe it is prehensile.
I think JAD was thinking about parts of an elephant he wouldn’t mind hanging from.
ksoskins about 14 years ago
Posthensile and Griddle?