| 单词 | arboreal |
| 例句 | Maybe it was a vestige of our arboreal past; we wanted to climb up and out of danger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z How many forlorn hours in the arboreal city with only meerkats for company? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Many arboreal primates must have vanished with the forests. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These trees were without a doubt the gates into a meerkat arboreal city with more bustle in it than Calcutta. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Ghost Forest” uses towering dead Atlantic white cedars to create a temporary copse of arboreal skeletons. Review | Maya Lin’s forest in a Manhattan park makes a point about climate change. Is anyone listening? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z From arboreal foothills, we climbed up to bare, boulder-strewn plateaux, before plunging back down to shaded valleys below. Lockdown escapes: where I’ll visit when this is over 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z There's certainly something fickle about film's relationship with our arboreal friends. Clip joint: trees 2010-04-28T15:28:00Z To clear the land, palm oil farmers simply burn down the jungle, sometimes trapping terrified orangutans in their arboreal nests. Dragons, Apes, Mantas and Birds 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The exhibit, approaching its arboreal subject in a variety of media, is naturally uneven. Forests and mountains dominate 'Evergreen Muse: The Art of Elizabeth Colborne' at Whatcom Museum 2011-08-19T18:26:04Z "A Wooden Tree" depicts a family's growing excitement over a wooden tree "there at the back," with Dad, Mum, sister and brother joining each other, one by one, in arboreal enthusiasm. Baryshnikov is one of the gang in Mark Morris' 'A Wooden Tree' 2012-10-05T17:37:02Z The movements that follow are arboreal portraits in music: a puckish, dancing duet for the bassoon and a violin; a mysterious nocturne; curlicue phrases choked into fragments; and patient brooding. John Williams in the Concert Hall: An Introduction 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Those celestial dates, like the arboreal setting, represent an alignment of his interests. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The best sculpture of the lot is at the Chelsea Boone: a magnificent twisting, almost cyclonic tree trunk whose massive branches are themselves bluntly attached tree trunks — an arboreal Frankenstein monster. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Among the subjects are such arboreal details as “Birch Bark” and “Giant Sequoia Needles,” rendered at enlarged sizes, as well as tree stumps and downed trunks. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z From a distance, the transplanted cedars blend into the larger arboreal fabric. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Potted trees link to arboreal shapes on the wall, and to folded paper the color of leaves. Review | In the galleries: A former pillar of the fashion world crafts compelling art 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But the most important thing about this epiphany was not the arboreal splendor itself, but the Lord’s appointment on earth: The Christmas Tree Whisperer. The Christmas tree whisperer 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Decorators, who are typically women, paint the pieces using ancestral motifs that include spirals, waves, spider webs, roosters, serpents, fish and an arboreal design known as the tree of life, which is dotted with apples. Can Old-World Ceramics Survive Modern Tastes? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Even its genre — comedy, satire, arboreal drama? — is lost to time. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In the four years since, Taylor has made new installation work, some of which will be featured in the MoCA show, including his “afro trees” — arboreal sculptures made of synthetic hair. The ‘Slow Burn’ That Is Henry Taylor 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Bieito has no qualms about chopping up Shakespeare's prose for his arboreal venture. Shakespeare inspires forest drama 2012-09-05T07:31:23Z An old sycamore tree suggested the place where the fictional Christopher Robin lived; a towering walnut tree the arboreal abode of Pooh himself. The real forest that inspired the stories of Winnie-the-Pooh 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The fig tree isn’t the only narrator — parts of the novel are told from a traditional third-person point of view — but the tree’s arboreal perspective is grafted right onto the trunk of the story. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Now adjectives are compiled by us as we look: dense, atmospheric, flecked, porous, arboreal, lunar, glimmering, cascading, photographic, matte, shiny. Richard Serra Scales Down With ‘Ramble Drawings’ 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In the context of the park’s arboreal luxe they make an odd sight, because they’re leafless, and clearly dead or dying. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z If not quite progeny, they are at least arboreal legacy. 'I'm delighted to find them big now': a pilgrimage to the trees my father planted 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z No wonder these adapted birds are so adept at the arboreal life. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z On the one hand, Daignault’s arboreal group portrait is a preservative document: In it, the witness trees will live on. New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The Embassy of Argentina recently hosted an exhibition of mixed-media paintings with an arboreal motif. Eran Riklis’s latest film illuminates the experience of Israel’s Arab citizens 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Surrounded by the park’s lush greenery the lifeless trees made for a starkly majestic cautionary tableau, an arboreal “Burghers of Calais.” Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z With its wind-blown branches heaving and swaying and its trunk whipping up and down, it looks more animal than plant, as if were a great, arboreal whale. Art in Review: EIJA-LIISA AHTILA 2011-11-03T21:37:09Z Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” for instance, echoes Daniel’s many arboreal manifestations. Review | Ali Smith begins a new quartet of novels with ‘Autumn’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Contrary to what its few current species might suggest, the crocodile group was highly diversified in the past, with herbivorous, arboreal, and even totally marine species. Multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z "Underneath these live epiphytes, as they die and decompose, they actually construct an arboreal soil…They have a tremendous capacity for holding onto nutrients and water," she continued. Epiphytes, amazing plants like moss and bromeliads found in trees, face growing threats 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z He wandered through old sections of Bellingham, Seattle and Tacoma in search of arboreal wonders for a 1996 book, “Champion Trees of Washington State.” Seattle’s ‘Big Tree Bob’ measures the world’s tallest trees 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z We contribute to the collective quest to ensure orangutans persist in their arboreal realm by heightening awareness, endorsing organizations and making mindful choices. Orangutans are being pushed to the brink of extinction. Can we save them in time? 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Wide-eyed, arboreal lorises—small mammals that secrete flesh-rotting venom to use in vicious territorial fights—are among the planet's strangest primates. Cute and Ugly Pygmy Lorises Are Actually Two Different Species 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The arboreal hypothesis posits that tree-dwelling precursors to modern birds jumped from branch to branch using their feathers for gliding before becoming fully capable of flapping flight. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This arboreal heritage of primates resulted in hands and feet that are adapted for brachiation, or climbing and swinging through trees. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z I love the look on the squirrel’s face and the way the latticework of branches and leaves spreading out behind it remind us of the arboreal world they inhabit. Perspective | An Oklahoma squirrel takes top honors in this year’s photo contest 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The other subjects include a few near-abstract nature scenes and an owl rendered in bold black lines overprinted with areas of arboreal brown and tan. In the galleries: Magical images of the ordinary 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z However, Walsh said the arboreal confusion could impact the annual development of protective bark, which could ultimately “put a lot of stress on the trees” and shorten their lifespan. DC’s cherry blossoms coming early due to confusing weather 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z This arboreal heritage of primates has resulted in hands and feet that are adapted for brachiation, or climbing and swinging through trees. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Humans are most closely related to Primates, all of which have adaptations for climbing trees, although not all species are arboreal. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z The arboreal forms are generally lighter than their sky-like backdrops, but loosely patterned with spots and lines in bold green, orange and red. Review | In the galleries: Finding beauty inside and outside the garden walls 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z California has its geography, size, unique climate — and a big dose of chance — to thank for this impressive arboreal distinction. California Is Home to the Tallest, Largest and Oldest Trees in the World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “That’s not how an arboreal animal like a squirrel is built.” Fossils Reveal Pterosaur Ancestors Before They Evolved Wings 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In an adjacent arboreal row, 11 trees to the north, you’ll find the equally exotic dark purple Black Oxford apples, resembling large plums. How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future. 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Tamanduas are arboreal creatures, so their tails act as an extra limb, helping them to hang from branches and maintain balance high above the ground. New at the zoo The true number of ants is almost certainly higher than 20 quadrillion because the new calculations only included a conservative estimate for arboreal ants and excluded subterranean ants altogether, Dr. Schultheiss said. Counting the World’s Ants Requires a Lot of Zeros 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The two lower arm bones reveal the species was also arboreal, where it probably was safest from predators. Human ancestors were walking upright 7 million years ago, ancient limb bone suggests 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Some organisms live several meters above ground and have adapted to this arboreal lifestyle. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The effort builds on research suggesting the right fungi can give arboreal growth a powerful boost. ‘Myconauts’ aim to reveal the often hidden soil fungi that shape ecosystems 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z But minutes later, as he made his way along the path, he noticed a tell-tale color of arboreal stress: red. Drought and bark beetles are killing the oldest trees on Earth. Can they be saved? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z With tropical forests’ voluminous canopies and known densities of arboreal ants, there are likely to be far more tropical ants in the tropics than current counts. Counting the World’s Ants Requires a Lot of Zeros 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z We expected a minor tree trim over wires prior to professional arboreal work. Rant and Rave: Reader ruffled by mess left behind by county workers 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z In a study published Monday in Current Biology, researchers tested the skills of arboreal and ground-dwelling salamanders using a wind tunnel to simulate flight from the tops of trees. It’s Not a Bird or a Plane. It’s a Skydiving Salamander. 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Michelle Mack, a forest ecologist at Northern Arizona University, has seen this arboreal phoenix in action. Climate change could expand forests. But will they cool the planet? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z It is arboreal and lives in mountain rainforests. It’s a joey! Bronx Zoo announces birth of rare tree kangaroo 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Next, the drawings are painted in single colors on canvas, surrounded by arboreal backdrops rendered in a hazier, more watery mode. Review | In the galleries: Where simple techniques reveal complex visions 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z And not just leaping, but stringing together risky, acrobatic jumps as they race through the arboreal canopy, pinballing from branch to branch, trunk to trunk. Perspective | Leap of faith: Science explores why squirrels are such good jumpers 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z They were made in Mexico, Asia, the D.C. region and other areas to demonstrate both the universality and the individuality of arboreal forms. Review | In the galleries: Fresh perspectives on the powerful presence of trees 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Standing on a lot redolent of fresh-cut poplar and littered with arboreal debris — tree chunks as large as small cars that were once a 108-foot-tall living organism — Zumot said the choice was easy. He wanted to build his son a house. He didn’t let an old tree and D.C. law stop him. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Representing the next season’s needles, cones and shoots, buds form during the late summer and early fall, when decreasing day length and temperatures set the tree on its path to an arboreal equivalent of hibernation. Why does snow glow blue? How could a fly possibly survive high-elevation elements? Join us for an exploration of Washington’s winter wonders. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z She says crossings should be specifically designed for both small and large terrestrial animals as well as arboreal ones, and integrated with fencing of the train tracks. A controversial train heads for the Maya rainforest 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Birmingham's city centre will play host to a "pop-up" forest garden as part of this arboreal project, which also forms part of the city's Commonwealth Games festivities. Unboxed: Oil rig in lido to form part of UK-wide arts event 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The Walt Disney Company’s secretive research and development division, Imagineering, had promised a walking, talking, emoting Groot, as if the arboreal “Avengers” character had jumped off the screen and was living among us. Are You Ready for Sentient Disney Robots? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, the city snubbed its own native trees to name another South African beauty, the coral tree, as our official arboreal symbol. L.A. has no seasons, you say? Wrong. Here's how to mark them 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Pêgas said that the discovery was "significant" in that they were to show for the first time that some pterosaurs were arboreal, meaning they lived and roosted in trees. Pterosaurs with thumbs? Scientists say yes, a "monkeydactyl" once existed 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Pool works relentlessly to rescue the arboreal, slow-moving mammals and return them to the wild. Perspective | Sloth lady of Suriname 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The arboreal analogy is just our traditional way of illustrating evolution, made canonical by Charles Darwin. How viruses shape our world 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z When wriggling up trees, arboreal snakes usually need two gripping regions, which they achieve by wrapping their bodies twice around the trunk—a process called concertina locomotion. Invasive snakes move their bodies like lassos, a totally new mode of locomotion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Our arboreal primate ancestors adapted to life in the treetops over millions of years, endowing them with attributes that benefited us after we descended and went terrestrial. Review | How wood shaped human history, from spears to boats to books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The new species is an example of an arboreal pterosaur. Pterosaurs with thumbs? Scientists say yes, a "monkeydactyl" once existed 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Even if someone could distinguish a leaf insect from its arboreal brethren, there is an almost zero chance the insect would be in the company of its mate, let alone in flagrante delicto. He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z As recently described in Scientific Reports, Chan and his colleagues turned to aerial bridges—the arboreal answer to terrestrial wildlife underpasses and overpasses. Rain Forest Canopy Bridges Aid Slow Lorises, Gibbons and Other Threatened Species 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z At first, it sounds creepy, like some arboreal horror movie: “The Trees Have Eyes.” The trees have eyes in Strathmore’s mesmerizing art installation ‘Monuments’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The camera takes advantage of the wide expanses and arboreal silhouettes of the Australian outback without making it into a statement. Need a new TV show? Start with these 9 great British and Aussie imports 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The bright August sunlight revealed an arboreal massacre in downtown Washington’s largest park. For a D.C. park to be reborn, 63 trees must die before others take their place 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The process, the arboreal equivalent of sweating, is known as transpiration. A controversial Russian theory claims forests don’t just make rain—they make wind 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The arboreal primates arrived at Zoo Miami in January 2019, and this is their first offspring. Endangered mongoose lemur born at Zoo Miami 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The worst, by far, is systemic racism in police departments nationwide — and here perhaps the arboreal metaphor fails, and the disease is in the trunk itself, if not in the soil of our national history. Opinion | The problem of policing isn’t bad apples. It’s a diseased tree. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The mutation occurred around 10 million years ago, coinciding with an ancestral shift from arboreal to terrestrial living and, most likely, a diet richer in fallen, fermenting fruit on the forest floor. Elephants Really Can’t Hold Their Liquor 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z These new arboreal ambitions could make it harder for researchers and officials to argue that peatlands are the wrong places for trees. How peat could protect the planet 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Inside, researchers have access to a kind of arboreal Library of Congress: a vast collection of tree fragments from around the world, including cross-sections of giant sequoias. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z In fact, he has spent his writing life in a series of increasingly pretty houses on the arboreal streets of suburban Vancouver. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Combined with a flexible elbow and hand bones indicating a powerful, grasping thumb and curved fingers, the forelimb has the telltale signs of arboreal suspension found in all living great apes. Fossil ape hints at how walking on two feet evolved 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The Arboretum’s newly christened Daniel J. Hinkley Asian Maple collection is an arboreal treasure. Soak up the fall warmth of the Daniel J. Hinkley Asian Maple collection at Washington Park Arboretum 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Caribou rely on large tracts of old-growth forests for their main food source of arboreal lichen. A small town's economy. Endangered caribou. Which do we protect? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z When not being criticized as a swamp that must be drained, Washington is occasionally praised for its arboreal charms. D.C. has the nation’s best park system, study says. Arlington isn’t far behind. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Likely omnivorous, Ambopteryx lived an arboreal lifestyle in a forested environment. Bat-winged dinosaur was intriguing detour in evolution of flight 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The mountain caribou live in inland temperate rain forests and move in the winter to higher elevations in search of what they survive the season on: furry arboreal lichen hanging from old-growth trees. America’s reindeer have quietly gone extinct in the Lower 48 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Despite its size, the bee remained elusive, with almost nothing known about the female’s secretive life cycle involving making nests of tree resin inside active arboreal termite mounds. World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found in Indonesia 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Grattapaglia is also sceptical about using genetically modified trees to combat arboreal diseases. Transgenic trees face rocky path from the farm to the forest 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige called the 145,000-square-feet headquarters an “arboreal palace nestled at the rim of a eucalyptus wonderland.” Scientologist stabbed to death by boy, 16, outside Australian headquarters, police say 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Instead of a homely symbol of midwinter cheer, these disciplined arboreal ranks with their uniform decorations are arrayed like massed soldiers or colossal columns designed by Albert Speer. Trump portrait: you couldn’t create a creepier Yuletide scene if you tried 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z One day, it may take the arboreal equivalent of a Voight-Kampff test to separate the real from the faux. Real Christmas Trees are the greener choice | John Rudolf 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Across New York City, especially in Manhattan, people woke up on Friday to arboreal carnage. ‘Not a Soul Taking Control’: How a Storm in the New York Area Upended the Night 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “It’s an arboreal mammal — it’s restricted by an area where there’s a continuous canopy. They don’t like coming to the ground,” Bencini explains. Western Australia’s science finds strength in its isolation 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Taken together with the discovery of Lucy, as well as the Laetoli footprints, OH 8 served the story that the human foot was adapted from the arboreal chimpanzee foot. What Makes the Human Foot Unique? 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “In arboreal culture, a multiple-stemmed woody plant with a mature height of 15 feet or less is a shrub. Which sounds right for a small backyard.” The Trees In Your Yard: Are They Just Clutter? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Those arboreal realities fit the canonical belief that genes flow only vertically, from parents to offspring, and can’t be traded sideways across species boundaries. The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This became more ominous, but no less beautiful, when the projection changed into an arboreal mandala eventually decaying into man-made urban destruction. Review: And NOW, for something different at REDCAT 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Between May and August, Freeze might catch fewer than 10 northerns at his arboreal outpost just off Interstate 95. A mysterious disease is killing millions of bats. These scientists are trying to save them. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The chimpanzee foot most likely contains derived elements that were adapted to support their arboreal lifestyle. What Makes the Human Foot Unique? 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z When enjoying its evolved arboreal lifestyle, however, the sloth is a genius. A Look at the Inner Lives of 13 Species of Animals You Think You Know 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The paper looked at about a dozen songbird species, including the American robin, red-faced warbler, and other arboreal species, as well as ground-dwelling birds like the house wren and white-breasted nuthatch. Birds That Leave Nest Too Late Can Endanger Their Families 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z There are currently 70 recognized species of snail-eaters, and they are among the most diverse groups of arboreal, or tree-dwelling, snakes. These 5 New Snake Species Suck Snails Out of Their Shells 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Cantwell and her colleagues, along with other city agencies and nonprofits, add more than 10,000 trees annually to the District’s arboreal family. D.C. says its tree canopy is growing. Federal researchers disagree. 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Trees are sociable, it turns out, and even somewhat selfless, nurturing their drought-stricken or wounded arboreal siblings. The secret life and value of trees 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z New Court 18, which begins an incremental westward expansion, is sunken and arboreal. In Paris, a Mosaic of Sport and Art 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z “This is a tantalizing new hypothesis that provides a suitable explanation for the extinction of arboreal groups of archaic birds at the end of the Cretaceous,” he says. How Did Dino-Era Birds Survive the Asteroid 'Apocalypse'? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Fortunately, after the war was over, it didn’t take long for Washingtonians to fall back in love with the city’s arboreal identity. When Washington hated its cherry trees 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Winter arrived everywhere in Washington on Thursday but nowhere more officially than at the arboretum, the branchiest branch of the federal government and a Department of Agriculture-certified arboreal harbinger of seasons. ‘It’s so still’: A winter solstice filled with peace at the National Arboretum 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It will feature a flowing stream, larger and more complex arboreal pathway, misting areas to cool the red pandas during the summer, additional land for exploration and a variety of new nesting places. Grant to help expand, renovate zoo’s red panda habitat 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Orangutan means “person of the forest” in the Indonesian and Malay languages, and it is the world’s biggest arboreal mammal. Going ape: new orangutan species identified in Sumatra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z A tall, untrimmed oak tree grows menacingly, an arboreal version of Chekhov’s gun. Perspective | How does this Arena Stage garden grow? Artificially, it turns out. 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The documentary “The Trees” looks at the arboreal component of the Sept. 11 memorial on the site of the former World Trade Center. TV This Week, Sept. 3-9: 'You're the Worst,' 'Hidden Figures' and more 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Ju is the tree’s legal owner — but arboreal success has many fathers. ‘I feel as if I lost a member of my family’: A tree older than the U.S. falls in Washington 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The researchers propose that early hominins’ muscles gradually became dominated by slow-twitch fibers as they gave up arboreal life and adapted to traveling across long distances to hunt and forage. How chimps outmuscle humans 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Orangutan means “person of the forest” in the Indonesian and Malay languages, and it is the world’s biggest arboreal mammal. Going ape: new orangutan species identified in Sumatra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The fairies will merge with their arboreal background. Netia Jones leads with light 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z He explores each one 'ears first', attuned to the aural in the arboreal. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z This arboreal marsupial lives on the wooded slopes of Mount Lewis in the Daintree rainforest in Queensland, Australia, where scientists have judged it already “ecologically extinct”. The 10 species most at risk from climate change 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “If she evolved from a more arboreal ancestor she may just not have had the time yet to evolve a shorter upper limb,” he said. New evidence that Lucy, our most famous ancestor, had superstrong arms 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z These tiny larvae are briefly arboreal, feeding on tree fluids. Annual Cicadas Perform Their Final Mating Calls of the Season in New York 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z This dichotomy of the human relationship to our arboreal urban denizens forms the centerpiece of Jill Jonnes’ new book, “Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Landscape.” Jill Jonnes’ ‘Urban Forests’ looks at how trees coexist alongside us 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z But he presents data and observations that go far beyond a fuzzy infatuation with arboreal surroundings. ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ explores writer’s love for the forest 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Hurricane Matthew bushwhacked Georgia’s oldest city, leaving arboreal carnage everywhere. Savannah's signature tree canopy gets bushwhacked by Matthew 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Not only that, they also give off a gas to warn nearby trees that then immediately release toxic substances to protect themselves — these are “arboreal early–warning systems,” as Wohlleben explains. The subtle communication skills of trees 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Tolkien understood that arboreal time plays out over centuries. Dendrology: The community of trees : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z They called their collection of old fruit varieties “arboreal archaeology.” Italian Grows Forgotten Fruit. What She Preserves Is a Culture. 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z “I think that there is some evolutionary baggage left over from arboreal life and that we are catching a species in transition,” says Johanson. Did a Fall From a Tree Kill Lucy, Our Famous Ancestor? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In this paean to the “arboreal impulse”, Fiona Stafford gets under the bark of the terrestrial giants whose natural history is interlaced with our own. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Based on its teeth—premolars and molars from both the left and right jaw—Microleo was probably an arboreal predator that dined on a variety of other small creatures. This Marsupial Lion Was the Size of a Squirrel He presents this as a golden age of arboreal life. Dendrology: The community of trees : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z He’s living the good life at the ancestral manse outside London town with his lovely wife, Jane, and no way does he want to return to his former arboreal haunts in the Congo. ‘The Legend of Tarzan’: A civilized ape man swings in 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z There are two separate species of orangutan, the world’s largest arboreal animal and the only great ape in Asia: Bornean and Sumatran, which come from two separate Indonesian islands. Teaching an Orangutan to Breast-Pump 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Woodland caribou, especially the ones that live in the mountains, survive winter by eating arboreal lichen, which takes 80 to 150 years to grow. 'Necessary evil': saving the endangered caribou might mean killing wolves 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The oldest claims to be the Schwarzwald Hochstrasse - the Black Forest High Road - meandering through arboreal loveliness just east of the Rhine. Has Germany lost its Wanderlust? - BBC News 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z But after Mr. Miller’s arboreal escapade, the tree lost 15 percent of its value, the documents show, and was now worth $43,900, the report said. Damage After Man Climbs and Camps in Seattle Tree? $7,800 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z To adopt the familiar arboreal metaphor, the tree Justice Scalia focused on is meaningless because the forest didn’t even exist. It is patriotic to question the logic of Scalia and the NRA 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z “We assumed that they were at least partly arboreal,” Archer said. Australia's marsupial lions 'dropped from trees' to attack prey, study finds 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Gibbons are small, arboreal apes from rainforests in parts of Asia. Fossil unearthed in Spain sheds light on ape evolution 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Crucially, they have skeletons indicating that apemen were then changing from arboreal animals to upright walkers. This face tells us why we must rethink our views on our ancestors 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z “Cuban tree frogs are an arboreal species, meaning they spend most of their lives in trees, but occasionally are found on the ground,” said Sommers of the Wildlife Commission. Cuban tree frog: Invasive species takes over resident’s yard 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Linnaeus’s two-toed sloths are an arboreal and nocturnal species native to Central and South America, including Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. Denver Zoo welcomes sloth named Charlotte Greenie 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “Possums are arboreal and eat eucalyptus leaves,” Hollings says, “but they also come to the ground at night to eat fruits and seeds,” sometimes dining in agricultural fields and gardens. Tasmanian devils create landscape of fear 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It looked brittle, used up, sloughing off its bark as if it had arboreal eczema. The saddest little tree in downtown Washington bears a surprise 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Most owls, of course, do not live in the ground, but are rather “arboreal,” roosting on branches or in cavities within trees. In Honor Of the Super Bowl, The 16 Most Superb Owls of All Time I think that we realized that there are certain features in her skeleton that were left over from her arboreal ancestry. Lucy discoverer on the ancestor people relate to 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Their ochered flagstone fur and arboreal proportions blend in seamlessly with the acacia trees on which they tirelessly forage, and they’re as quiet as trees, too: no whinnies, growls, trumpets or howls. Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Gibbons are small arboreal apes that display an accelerated rate of evolutionary chromosomal rearrangement and occupy a key node in the primate phylogeny between Old World monkeys and great apes. Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z He was working with a 16-year-old clouded leopard — an arboreal felid somewhere in size between a lynx and a bobcat, with a spectacularly large tail. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z European settlers exacerbated this arboreal destruction, clearing the great US eastern forest over the course of the 19th century. Boom-and-bust cycles doomed passenger pigeon 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z European settlers exacerbated this arboreal destruction, clearing the great U.S. eastern forest over the course of the 19th century. 3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon? 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Her prayer for help is answered in the most spectacular way—via an act of spontaneous arboreal combustion. This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The thieves who butchered this and other 1,000-year-old arboreal giants were after the burls, gnarly protrusions on the trees that are prized for their intricately patterned wood. Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods 2014-04-09T01:13:19Z MODESTO, Calif. — Farmers and other residents of the rural district known as Wood Colony refer to the 104-year-old arboreal landmark in their midst — a gigantic walnut tree of Grimm’s fairy-tale proportions — as simply, the Tree. Rural Spot Settled by Religious Group in California Fears a City’s Encroachment 2014-03-14T19:11:38Z They were hounded by dog packs, cornered, treed, and then ignominiously blown away – reduced to the equivalent of furry fish in arboreal barrels. Catfight: How mountain lions are struggling to survive 2014-03-09T21:00:00Z What does the fossil record tell us about the origin and antiquity of arboreal and vegetative nest-building behaviour? Bird behaviour, the ‘deep time’ perspective 2014-01-27T12:35:26Z Perhaps the most familiar is the Frilled lizard, Frilled dragon or Frillynecked dragon Chlamydosaurus kingii, a highly variable, mostly insectivorous agamid that reaches 85 cm in total length and is predominantly arboreal. Australia, land of dragons (by which I mean: agamids) (part I) 2014-01-17T21:45:11.082Z What emerges in its recovery stage may not be the same as before, but it will always be a vital, dynamic, arboreal community. Can our woods be saved by clever planting? 2013-10-25T01:19:44Z It is a large arboreal tarantula that had been sighted in Singapore before. Photographer Nicky Bay's Purple Centipedes and Singapore Blues 2013-09-12T14:15:53.093Z The arboreal army, with more than 1,000 volunteers, is the first line of defense in a city program to obscure the District’s skies with tree tops. District’s volunteer tree keepers battle nature and neighbors to help city grow its canopy 2013-07-31T23:11:09Z On its Facebook page, the zoo said that Rusty, an “arboreal, territorial” creature, was most likely napping in a tree nearby. A Parallel Search for a Missing Panda 2013-06-24T19:27:22Z The team puts Archicebus on the line leading to tarsiers, a collection of small arboreal animals now found exclusively in south-east Asia. Primate fossil is oldest yet found 2013-06-05T17:06:21Z Few animals seem as ill-suited to an arboreal life as a frog. City Room: A Frog of Special Skill 2013-06-01T02:36:16Z What little forest remained provided poor habitat for the arboreal gibbons, which are not adapted for life on the ground. Satellite Reveals Possible Habitats for Rare Apes in China and Vietnam 2013-04-24T18:45:00.207Z Secondly, people just aren’t used to seeing flying squirrels walking around on the ground, which isn’t surprising given that forest-dwelling flying squirrels are arboreal animals of the canopy. The mystery mammal of Kayan Mentarang 2013-02-25T15:15:07.977Z Or, to put it in more arboreal terms--as a business, you won't grow strong new limbs if you don't prune the old ones. When Good Ideas Bear Fruit 2013-02-08T05:00:00Z The peg is then followed by a haustorium, the root that plugs into the arboreal host to draw off nutrients and water. A Natural History of Mistletoe 2012-12-21T21:15:02.557Z Assessing arboreal adaptations of bird antecedents: testing the ecological setting of the origin of the avian flight stroke. Did Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx climb trees? Claws and climbing in birds and other dinosaurs 2012-12-18T12:45:00.183Z Proboscis monkeys are strongly arboreal, typically clambering about branches when foraging for leaves. The amazing swimming Proboscis monkey (part I) 2012-11-30T12:45:00.210Z Has the small size of these monkeys evolved under selection for arboreal locomotion on small branches? Marmosets and tamarins: dwarfed monkeys of the South American tropics 2012-11-27T14:45:07.257Z Others maintained that still spent a considerable amount of time in the trees, and that the arboreal traits figured importantly in the survival of the species. 3.3-Million-Year-Old Baby Shows Lucy's Species Hung Out in Trees 2012-10-28T20:17:27.227Z One group, the Lucy species, relinquished the arboreal habitat and became functionally committed, long-distance walkers. African Foot Fossil Indicates Another Hominin Species Lived With Lucy 2012-03-28T17:05:36Z Evidence from claw geometry indicating arboreal habits of Archaeopteryx. Did Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx climb trees? Claws and climbing in birds and other dinosaurs 2012-12-18T12:45:00.183Z Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Without him we should have remained more or less simian, and probably of arboreal habits. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Instead, Green and Alemseged conclude, the findings bolster the hypothesis that A. afarensis “participated in a behavioral strategy that incorporated a considerable amount of arboreal behaviors in addition to bipedal locomotion.” 3.3-Million-Year-Old Baby Shows Lucy's Species Hung Out in Trees 2012-10-28T20:17:27.227Z Dr Thorpe said that parkour athletes move around in a highly cluttered urban environment which is not dissimilar to a cluttered arboreal habitat in the forest canopy. Free runners used for ape study 2012-02-28T13:17:04Z On the one hand, some people want Mesozoic birds to be tree-dwellers because they argue that bird flight, and birds themselves, must have arisen in an arboreal setting. Did Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx climb trees? Claws and climbing in birds and other dinosaurs 2012-12-18T12:45:00.183Z The Trogons are purely arboreal in habits, and frequent the larger trees of the denser forests, feeding mainly on insects. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z A similar adaptation is shared by some other arboreal mammals, and of arboreal snakes. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z After which, since he was not of the sort to clamor noisily for what lurked beyond his reach, the dog yawned and lay down to keep guard on his arboreal prisoner. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z They live in small flocks, and are arboreal in their habits, only occasionally descending to the ground, while always roosting and building their nests on the branches of trees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z In habits some are partially arboreal, others wholly terrestrial, and a few more or less aquatic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The Toucans are large birds exclusively arboreal in their habits, and feeding mostly, if not entirely, upon fruit. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z The dense foliage of the trees, tree holes, and bromeliads growing on the trees provide shelter for arboreal species. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z I have attempted to categorize species as to microhabitats within the arboreal habitat; in so doing, I recognize four subdivisions—bushes, tree trunks, tree tops, and epiphytes. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z Like curassows, guans are in great measure of arboreal habit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It may be that when our arboreal propositus descended from his palm-tree and began to walk upright about the earth, his progeny were forthwith committed to a journey in which to-day is only a way-station. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Marmosas are mainly arboreal, even though we captured all but one in traps on the ground. Scientist at Work Blog: S. Amanda Caudill From Costa Rica: Of Mice and Coffee 2011-12-08T21:35:27Z In comparing the ecological differences in the amphibian assemblages in the three major habitats, the most obvious difference is the great percentage of arboreal species in the rainforest as compared with savanna and scrub forest. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z Forty-two per cent of the 78 species are wholly or partly arboreal. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z He was a very hirsute man, with whiskers all over him, and at first sight he seemed to bear a very striking resemblance to his arboreal ancestors of the largest and most terrifying species. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z They are arboreal in habit and form an interesting link between the Partridges, etc. and the Pigeons. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The surface of the plateau is generally open campo and scrubby arboreal growth called caatingas, but the streams are generally bordered with forest, especially in the deeper valleys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Only four arboreal species are found in the scrub forest, none in the savannas, but eleven in the rainforest. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z Ecologically the fauna is divided into five major habitats—aquatic, aquatic margin, fossorial, terrestrial, and arboreal. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z Indeed, the trait is so useful for arboreal life that it is used by many avian palaeontologists to decide whether newly excavated species of fossil birds lived in trees or on the ground. What dinosaurs ate: The belly of the beast 2011-11-09T18:02:57Z The falling branches took down power lines and clogged local streets, and woke some people in the night with arboreal groans, pops and crashes. Colorado Slammed by Early Snow Storm 2011-10-26T17:16:59Z The arboreal species were thus associated with the true tree-frogs, regardless of their internal structure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z These limited observations on the ecology of this frog suggest that it breeds in the fast-moving streams of the Pacific slopes, and that it seeks shelter in arboreal bromeliads during the dry season. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z I will go and look about for its arboreal ancestor.' The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z Whether the first birds evolved from arboreal or terrestrial ancestors is a matter of lively debate among palaeontologists. What dinosaurs ate: The belly of the beast 2011-11-09T18:02:57Z High above the bamboos, high above even those arboreal towers of Pisa, the cocoanut palms, rose the majestic silk-cotton trees, bare of leaves at this season, with great branches shooting out at breathless heights. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Some great knotted creepers seemed to have threaded themselves with beads as big as a man’s head, and the fruit of one arboreal freak was vast sausages. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z Nests are placed in debris in root tangles along stream banks, and, presumably, in pendant arboreal lichens. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z Something in the position, in the hoary tree, and the greyish hue of his dress gave the impression of an arboreal animal. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The grateful shade thus obtained, and the long lines of charming arboreal perspective which are formed, are desirable accessories to any locality, but doubly so in tropical regions. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z A harvest of small arboreal insects was being gleaned high overhead. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z We, it is said, have been developed out of an arboreal animal, and I have sometimes regretted that we were not developed out of a flying animal. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Various localities were mentioned as the breeding-places of these arboreal geese. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z A crook is a very simple instrument—the mere branch of a tree will often serve as a crook—but no arboreal animal has ever used a crook. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The magnificent arboreal growth of these forests develops itself into thousands of strange and beautiful forms, stimulated by the constant humidity of the high temperature. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z These appear to be entirely arboreal in habits, and are quite as active as squirrels in running along branches, or climbing about amongst smaller twigs in search of insects. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal, but, besides green species, there are many black, and black-and-white kinds—all the species being apparently exposed to 224nearly the same dangers. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Giants in the arboreal world, the wutongs were introduced in China by the French in the late 1800s or early 1900s to adorn their settlement in Shanghai, Nanjing officials say. A Grass-Roots Fight to Save a ?Supertree? 2011-06-04T23:30:28Z With reference to the history of these groups the record stands as follows:—In the Palæozoic age classes 3 and 4 culminated, and constituted the great mass of the arboreal vegetation. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The middle of the plaza is beautified by a bronze fountain with arboreal and floral surroundings. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Potos flavus, with its dietary specialization, low tolerance to high temperatures, and arboreal mode of existence, has become a highly specialized species totally dependent on tropical forests for its survival. Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae 2011-05-07T02:00:34.980Z We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z All in hopes of preserving a separate, arboreal peace. A Grass-Roots Fight to Save a ?Supertree? 2011-06-04T23:30:28Z The still greater richness of North-east Asia in arboreal vegetation may find explanation in the prevalence of particularly favourable conditions, both ante-glacial and recent. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z It more nearly approaches the leopard, however, in the character of its spots as well as in its arboreal habit, but exceeds it in size. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z These small creatures for a long time lived a life of obscurity in trees without submitting to those extreme adaptations of structure which are found in most arboreal and flying mammals. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Toothed arboreal leaf-eaters, covered by coarse fur, and provided with very strong curved claws, by which they hang upside down from branches. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Some of these believe themselves sprung from trees, as if they had still reminiscences of the arboreal habits of a pithecoid ancestry. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z This condition is adapted for the arboreal life which those animals live, leaping from branch to branch, feeding on fruits and leaves, and in some cases upon insects. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Of the abundant smaller mammals, none are more attractive or beautiful than the arboreal squirrels, of which several species are widely known. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Many kinds lead an arboreal life, and their nests may be seen sticking like huge excrescences to the trunks of the forest-trees, and as often suspended from the branches. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z This apparent affinity has not prevented various arboreal misconceptions taking grip, however. Forest love 2011-02-02T12:21:47Z Evidence from other species suggests fragmentation is not the death knell of diversity, but their slow reproduction rate and arboreal lifestyle may leave orang-utan species especially vulnerable to rapid dramatic environmental change. Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes 2011-01-26T18:22:58.603Z He throws it out and uses it as we have described, but it has not that disproportion to the other toes which we expected to find as the result of a strictly arboreal life. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z The species are arboreal and feed on leaves; all being confined to the forests of tropical America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Birds, too, came in their way, all eaten by the Indians, as also various species of arboreal quadrupeds and quadrumana. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The foot, judging from the condition of the great toe in the fœtus, was then prehensile; and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, frequenting some warm, forest-clad land. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z One of these arboreal giants bent above Balboa's brigantine, with its branches screening the deck so effectually that the soldiers were nearly always in refreshing shade, even with the sun shining brightly at noonday. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z He is arboreal, but his food is either vegetable or picked up from the surface, rasped up rather than speared. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z One species is terrestrial, the others arboreal; none burrow in the ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z They swim under water, or upon the surface, with equal facility; and they are also arboreal, their powers of constriction enabling them to make their way to the tops of the highest trees. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z In habits the binturong is nocturnal and arboreal, inhabiting forests, and living on small vertebrates, worms, insects and fruits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z "He worked like a driven man, haunted by his arboreal ghosts, and had been at it for nearly a decade now," Kingsolver writes. The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback 2010-10-18T00:35:00Z One point we have left unexplained: What is the advantage, if there is any, in the sharper curve to the tails of the arboreal woodpeckers? The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Pangolins are of small or moderate size, terrestrial and burrowing, and feed mainly on termites or white ants; some of the species being more or less arboreal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z At night, roosting chameleons are also vulnerable to rats, mouse lemurs, arboreal tenrecs, carnivores, and snakes. Answering Readers' Chameleon Questions 2010-05-21T17:35:00Z Some of these birds, says Chapman, are arboreal, others are strictly terrestrial. Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life The greater part of Patagonia is comparatively barren and has no arboreal growth, except in the well-watered valleys of the Andean foothills. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" That it could fly is certain, and the feet show it to have 356 been well adapted to arboreal life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The one great deficiency of the group is the absence of arboreal vegetation, and yet an abundance of trees could be made to grow and flourish here with very little effort. The Story of Malta The anthropoid apes are arboreal and confined to the Old World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" None of these fowls can be considered as the progenitors of any now existing, but all as the descendants of flying ancestors of arboreal habits, whereof no trace has yet been discovered. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer Of Quadrumana there are about fifty species in Brazil, all arboreal, thirty-eight of which inhabit the Amazon region. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Man is the nomadic, the apes the arboreal, branch of the same great family. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 This view does not reveal any of the small groves; these are hidden in the few valleys where they exist, and the landscape is almost entirely devoid of arboreal ornament. The Story of Malta This strictly arboreal lizard is abundant in the mixed broad-leafed forest near Uruapan. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México He took the utmost pleasure in challenging the jungle lord to arboreal races, and while he never won them he came close on several occasions. The Return of Tharn It is noteworthy, also, for the large number of species having arboreal habits, the density and extent of the Amazon forests favouring their development rather than the development of those of terrestrial habits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" It cannot be found in the roving tendencies of our ancestor, since he was arboreal, and there are no trees in the strange-tinted waste. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu They are absolutely arboreal, but they hibernate in the ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" All the species are small animals, of active, bloodthirsty and courageous disposition, living chiefly on birds and small mammals, and rather terrestrial than arboreal, dwelling among rocks, stones and out-buildings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" There is also a scaly ant-eater and various species of pangolins, of arboreal habit, which live on ants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The terrestrial and arboreal forms feed mainly on insects, worms, etc. The Ranidae How to breed, feed and raise the edible frog This babbler tends to inhabit secondary growth more than does T. malaccense and was partly arboreal, occasionally ranging as high as 20 feet above ground. Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 They were out on the flat, with no arboreal sanctuary for the timid one. Ewing\\'s Lady Coatis, or coati-mundis, live in small troops of eight to twenty, are chiefly arboreal, and feed on fruits, young birds, eggs, insects, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Presumably, the habit of the Bell Vireo of foraging in higher strata is facilitated by the absence of other species of arboreal foraging vireos. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon In their arboreal life, and the habit of sitting up on their hind-legs with their food grasped in the fore-paws, dormice are like squirrels, from which they differ in being completely nocturnal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" With the first rays of the morning sun Tharn slid from his arboreal couch and set out at a rapid trot along the trail into the west. Warrior of the Dawn Upland growths are the pines as befitteth the gods of the arboreal world. Seeds of Pine They are mostly nocturnal, and the greater number, especially the smaller species, more or less arboreal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The arboreal tubes are only the prolongation of a much more elaborate system of subterranean tunnels, which extend over large areas and mine the earth sometimes to a depth of many feet or even yards. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 His gaze, turning aloft, was conscious of the birds and the tiny arboreal mammals. Insidekick When a gentle breeze sweeps past, the agitated leaves whisper to each other, while one strives to understand what they say in their arboreal tongue. The Pearl of India It should be remembered, however, that large areas of the lowland plains have only a very limited arboreal growth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Coatis are gregarious and arboreal in habit, and feed on birds, eggs, lizards and insects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Three-fourths of them are straightway diverted from their arboreal intent through conversion into food by the provident squirrel and improvident hog. The Economic Functions of Vice Actually, he had picked that name for the tree because it expressed both the arboreal and the feminine at the same time—and also because it was one of the loveliest names he knew. The Venus Trap Very little visible business seems to be transacted here, but as to the natural surroundings of this inland capital, the scenery, the arboreal beauties, and the floral charms, too much cannot be said in commendation. The Pearl of India They are all arboreal in habit, and are to be found throughout the forested lowlands and lower mountain slopes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" I could never find a case of another who had seen this ghost, diurnal and arboreal in its habits; but others have heard the fall of the tree, which seems the signal of its coming. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. The Kempton-Wace Letters Gentleness and docility are specially characteristic of the species, even when full-grown; while in the native state its habits are thoroughly arboreal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Thus she covers up the wrinkles of age with blooming vegetation, screening the mouldering architecture of a forgotten race beneath fresh arboreal and floral beauties. The Pearl of India Centrolenids are small, delicate, arboreal frogs having poorly ossified skulls and fused tarsal bones, but agree with Allophryne in having T-shaped terminal phalanges. Systematic Status of a South American Frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige Rua’s dead fisherman was decomposed; so—and horribly—was his arboreal demon. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The Agalychnis phyletic line has one kind of specialization for an arboreal existence. The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura Hylidae) And then his words; the extraordinary manner in which he twisted and juggled with the longer and less familiar of them--arboreal, peripatetic, matutinal, and the like! The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Of all vegetable nature, so abundant, prolific, and beautiful in this equatorial region, one most delights in the characteristic and ever-present palm,—arboreal king of the forest. The Pearl of India The passenger generally leaned forward in a position strongly suggestive of the favorite attitude of his arboreal ancestors. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 The fat dormouse of the South of Europe is the size of a rat, arboreal rodent, living in trees. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Throughout its range it coexists with no more than five other arboreal hylids. The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura Hylidae) Here, too, is a tree for many places; an adaptable, cosmopolitan sort of arboreal growth. Getting Acquainted with the Trees Page 22—aboreal amended to arboreal—"... there can be no question as to the value of its arboreal products." The Empire of the East The region is an arboreal and botanical garden on an immense scale, and full of surprises. Our Italy The organization of man renders it questionable if his primeval ancestor was arboreal to any similar extent. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Probably the other divergent arboreal adaptations resulted from environmental stresses and competition. The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura Hylidae) Unlike the other kangaroos, their fore limbs are nearly as long as the hinder pair, and thus adapted for arboreal life. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Whatever the mineral wealth of Japan—and the extent and variety thereof are probably yet not fully realised—there can be no question as to the value of its arboreal products. The Empire of the East These creatures were certainly arboreal, spending most of their time among the branches of trees. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Yet it is doubtful if the man-ape long remained a specially arboreal animal. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Sometimes he chatters to his human visitors in the most cordial tones as he glides up and down his arboreal promenade, or holds himself almost straight out. Our Bird Comrades A numerous group, varying in size from that of a mouse to a large cat, arboreal in their habits and abundantly distributed throughout the Australian region . . . have the tail more or less prehensile. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Occasionally the exterior is of varied hue—particularly in green country, when it is made to look verdant and covered with boughs to give it an arboreal aspect, and render its shape less observable. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 If forced to compete with terrestrial species, the tree spiders and scorpions would quickly become exterminated; while especially adapted arboreal ants would instantly disappear. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The former is an easy matter to an arboreal animal; the latter might prove a difficult one, especially if large animals were to be captured. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Yet the woodpeckers had in some way contrived to hew out their arboreal nursery, which was almost, if not quite, finished. Our Bird Comrades A coati-mundi is a tropical, arboreal raccoon of sorts, with a long, ever-wriggling snout, sharp teeth, eyes that twinkle with humor, and clawed paws which are more skilful than many a fingered hand. Edge of the Jungle Perhaps this is an inherited result of arboreal ancestry. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 The second question is akin to that—utilization of the western tree as a stock for a hybrid chinquapin which might have arboreal possibilities and enough chinquapin qualities to be blight-resistant. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. These apes are still arboreal and frugivorous, as their remote ancestors were. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Our little striped friend, usually called in the books the black-and-white warbler, is not, after all, so expert a creeper as is the nuthatch, which may be called the arboreal skater par excellence. Our Bird Comrades For these are not unlike the treetop couches of our arboreal ancestors, such a one as I have seen an orang-utan weave in a few minutes in the swaying crotch of a tree. Edge of the Jungle The fact is, that all the creatures of this great clan acquired their properties of body in arboreal life, and with such relatively small and light bodies as were fitted for tree climbing. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization There is no knowing when the race will return to arboreal habits. Fernley House It is fully alive to the needs and dangers of arboreal life, and advances no farther in its native habitat because there is nothing more of importance to be learned. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Each shoot, eager to expand its leaves in the light, ever spreading, forms mass after mass of the beautiful green panoply—the coat armour of the forest, arboreal man's first form of domestic architecture. Line and Form (1900) It was my delusion that I was a dead Indian cached aloft upon my arboreal bier—which is not a normal state of mind for the sleeping explorer. Edge of the Jungle Well, gentlemen," he said when his visitors were seated; "what about the arboreal errand? The Flag I think not more than you Am I in love with it; but, looking back, I fail to see a better, though I peer Into remote arboreal history. Mr. Faust It must, in its developed state as a land-dwelling, wandering, and hunting biped, have needed a wider range of utterance than during its arboreal residence. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution At the present time she could not hope successfully to wage war upon them in their arboreal fastness. The Black Phantom Paleolithic man In his arboreal nest The sparks of fun would fan; My outline did he plan, And laughed like one possessed, 'Twas thus my course began, I am a Merry Jest. The Book of Humorous Verse Tits are arboreal in habits; they seldom descend to the ground. Birds of the Indian Hills Our arboreal ancestor could neither bore nor be bored. The Perfect Gentleman This is that they form the only group of strictly arboreal animals. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Almost the only case I can find recorded is mentioned in that repertory of natural-history facts, “The Origin of Species,” viz. that herbaceous groups have a tendency to become arboreal in islands. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Heredity again, for the snake was the worst enemy of arboreal man. Danger! and Other Stories As was stated above, all arboreal gregarious birds have this habit. Birds of the Indian Hills For the kitchen, a canvas stretched between the camp-wagon and a convenient sycamore served as sufficient protection from sun and arboreal insects. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party These considerations bring us to an important question: Why did the man-ape gain a length of arm not the best suited to its arboreal habitat? Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution As soon as our neighbors realized what horticultural possibilities our noble expanse of front yard offered they fairly overwhelmed us with floral and arboreal gifts. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Just then an idea occurred to Caspar that offered them an alternative to this unpleasant prospect of an arboreal life. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" The tropical region—the tierra caliente—is generally covered, as before described, with a profuse floral and arboreal vegetation, whilst the other climatic belts display their own peculiar plant and tree life. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The latter were descending the wooded hill-shore, and had just emerged from a thick arboreal growth into a comparatively clear area a hundred yards away. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation In the latter case we would have two lines of animal evolution in which the grasping power was gained and adaptation to arboreal life completed. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Heredity, or the unknown factors of which heredity is the result, would go on uninterruptedly, the result being a succession of generations perfectly adapted to arboreal life. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work The arboreal vegetation of the country is magnificent. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Traces of an arboreal ancestry could be demonstrated even in the marsupial mole Notoryctes. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Thereafter, perhaps, came a period of arboreal apprenticeship during which there was much gliding from tree to tree before true flight was achieved. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The squirrels, the opossums, and other arboreal animals have sharp claws, by whose aid they can easily cling to the surface of the bark-covered boughs. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution After such primitive forms, members of different families, had become established on trees, a process of arboreal segregation or isolation would set in, and intercrossing with low-feeders would cease. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work Most arboreal lizards wear the colour of the leaves upon which they feed; the same is true of the whip-snakes and the tiny green tree-frogs. The Human Side of Animals These characters were shown to be typical of arboreal Vertebrates, and their occurrence in forms not arboreal indicated that these were descended from tree-living ancestors. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology A second chapter was probably an arboreal apprenticeship, during which they made a fine art of parachuting—a persistence of which is to be seen in the pigeon "gliding" from the dovecot to the ground. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The sloth, indeed, is specially adapted in organization to an arboreal residence, but this change is individual, not tribal, this animal being an aberrant form of the ground-dwelling edentata. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution The foot, judging from the condition of the great toe in the fœtus, was then prehensile, and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, frequenting some warm forest-clad land. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Head elongate; ears round; feet arboreal, naked below; tail semi-nude; pelage not spiny. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The most primitive mammals were probably small insectivorous or omnivorous forms, therefore with simple, short-crowned teeth, of slow-moving, ambulatory, terrestrial, or arboreal habit, and with short feet provided with claws. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology This persistent grasp probably points back to the time when the baby had to cling to its arboreal mother. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told It is certainly not due to the arboreal life and powers of grasp of these animals, for in those respects they resemble the lemurs, which are greatly lacking in intelligence. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution He finds that they thicken and broaden, and deepen as they sweep in their majestic gloom across the Urals, and make up for thousands of miles the grand Siberian arboreal belt. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers The shank-bones being united and the rudimentary tail create an affinity to the latter, whilst its arboreal habits are those of the former. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Yet they may not have dug after all to the veins which supply the floral and arboreal life of the earth. Confessions of Boyhood At this point it will be useful to consider man's arboreal apprenticeship and how he became a terrestrial journeyman. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Let us not even have, you or me, a wonder garden—of arboreal or floral curiosities. The Amateur Garden Next morning Pomeroy learned that his new found arboreal friend was a Persian walnut. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Dr. Anderson says it is essentially arboreal, and the natives assert it lives on birds and small mammals, such as Squirrels and Tupaiæ. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The plantigrade Cercoleptes has a long tail, and is entirely arboreal. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America He maintains that the leading peculiarities of the immediate precursors of man were wrought out during a long arboreal apprenticeship. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Here we found unkempt laurel bushes, and acacias run riot, from which arboreal tangle protruded the notice: "To be Let or Sold." The Devil Doctor Its hind legs are very much longer than the fore legs—another proof of an arboreal existence. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa This animal is essentially arboreal in its habits, inhabiting chiefly thick coniferous woods, whence its name of Pine Marten is derived. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Mr. Bates has called our attention to the arboreal character of a large share of the animals in the Amazonian forest. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Another acquisition associated with arboreal life was a greatly increased power of turning the head from side to side—a mobility very important in locating sounds and in exploring with the eyes. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told This was not understood, as the Utes have no sign for the tree squirrel, the arboreal animal not being now found in their region. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 He listened with amused interest to the teachers who deduced our descent from "a hairy quadruped furnished withPg 96 a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits." Matthew Arnold They are most active in their habits, and are strictly arboreal, being awkward on the ground. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon It grows to the length of five feet, and is arboreal. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America But given the gains of the arboreal apprenticeship, the stimulus of an enforced descent to terra firma, and an evolving brain and voice, we can recognise accessory factors which helped success to succeed. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told In a word, this vestigial coat indicates in the clearest possible manner that the ancestor of the human species was not only hairy, but also arboreal in its mode of life. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Had the North African beast the arboreal habits of the South African tree-leopard or the American jaguar, this proceeding would be less effectual with him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 It is arboreal in its habits, and climbs with great agility. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon For what arboreal ape could rage and rail Like him, with fierce Gladstonophobia pale, That Smoke-room Simian, though without a tail! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 Many, we believe, were the gains that rewarded the arboreal apprenticeship of man's ancestors. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told It is obviously, however, a terrestrial animal, as it has not a swimming tail flattened from side to side, nor the climbing feet that so characteristically mark arboreal lizards. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 As compared with the entire duration of organic evolution, man came down from his arboreal abode and assumed his new rôle of increased domination over the physical world but a moment ago. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy According to Jerdon it is nocturnal, arboreal, and omnivorous, eating small animals, birds, insects, fruit and plants; more wild than viverrine animals in general, but easily tamed. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The prosimii, or "half apes," including the lemurs, are nearly all arboreal forms. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 It is an arboreal and cliff-loving bird, feeding chiefly on mammals, very fierce and strong. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told In the centre, a border of ancient oaks encircling a grassy glade framed it round into a kind of arboreal parlor. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees As ever in the history of man, since the first father dropped down from his arboreal home and walked upright, so at Dawson. A Daughter of the Snows A more or less arboreal group of larger size, and possibly less sanguinary habits than the weasels, although in this respect I do not think there is much difference. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The arboreal life developed the fingers and toes, and most of these end, not with a claw, but with a nail. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 This oldest known bird—too far advanced to be the first bird—was about the size of a crow and was probably of arboreal habits. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Some, living among extensive marshes, may adopt a more aquatic mode of life; others, living where forests abound, may become more arboreal. Darwinism (1889) Frona knew it well, creeping and crawling and twisting itself among the rocks of the shallow alluvial deposit, unlike its arboreal prototype, rarely lifting its head more than a foot from the earth. A Daughter of the Snows The following species lead on to the mice—beginning with the long-tailed arboreal species, Vandeleuria of Gray, which connect the arboreal rats with the house mice. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Had not our arboreal ancestors developed the hand for us we could never have invented tools nor used them if invented. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Professor Wood Jones has worked out very convincingly the thesis that man had no direct four-footed ancestry, but that the Primate stock to which he belongs was from its first divergence arboreal. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Bromeliae are often very abundant on trees growing on the water's edge, and this would facilitate the transition from a marine to an arboreal habitat. Darwinism (1889) After a short search, they were found sitting together alone in one of the arboreal retreats of the Kurgarten. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 DESCRIPTION.—I have been unable to trace any accurate description of this rat, which Blyth says "conducts from the long-tailed arboreal rats to the ordinary house mice." Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon By the arboreal life of the highest forms the hand is developed as the instrument of the thinking brain. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 She was threshing the fruit from the tree with astounding energy and agility, her scanty rags blown by the wind, and her emaciated, naked figure in its arboreal surroundings like that of an aged ape. White Shadows in the South Seas The anthropoid apes, as well as most of the monkey tribe, are essentially arboreal in their structure, whereas the great distinctive character of man is his special adaptation to terrestrial locomotion. Darwinism (1889) The principal arboreal productions are birches, and I found the houses, sheds, and fences in most of the villages constructed of birch timber. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The difference lies in the abundance of superposed arboreal ramifications. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy The arboreal life of higher mammals would seem to be most easily explained by the view that they were driven to it by stronger carnivorous mammals having possession of the ground. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Zorn's conception of womanhood has given offence to many idealists, who do not realise that once upon a time our forebears were furry and indulged in arboreal habits. Promenades of an Impressionist The four limbs, with the peculiarly formed feet and hands, are those of arboreal animals which only occasionally and awkwardly move on level ground. Darwinism (1889) Among the arboreal productions the alder and birch were the most numerous. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life There are other millions of acres of arid plains and arboreal deserts, on which nothing but thirst-proof animals can live and thrive. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Moreover, the highest mammals are largely arboreal, and in connection with this habit have changed the foreleg into an arm and hand. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Up the banks of these clamber the sturdy arboreal natives as though to shelter in warm embrace their delicate kindred from abroad. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 So, when one portion of a terrestrial species takes to a more arboreal or to a more aquatic mode of life, the change of habit itself leads to the isolation of each portion. Darwinism (1889) These three resorts are within a few miles and afford additional opportunities for lovers of the region to add to their knowledge of its scenic, botanic, arboreal and geologic features. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter In the vast assemblage of the arboreal commonwealth that carpets the landscape the centuries are represented one with another. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Hence carnivora ruled the ground, and certain arboreal apes became continually more anthropoid. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Some one was telling me that the trees on the Embankment there in London are dying of arboreal insomnia. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Throughout the Rodent tribe we find everywhere aquatic, terrestrial, and arboreal forms. Darwinism (1889) "It is in a sort of arboreal enclosure, with all sorts of flowers and vigorous vegetation that characterizes this region," the letter reads. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated Willing hands extracted M'Snape from his arboreal envelope—he could probably have got home quite well without it, but once a Boy Scout, always a Boy Scout—and he made his report. The First Hundred Thousand Here a heavy tree, its footway eaten out by the lake-swirl round a high point, slumps into the water, and joins the fleet of arboreal derelicts. The New North A species of pine, Araucaria cunninghami, is found here in small quantities, but more plentifully on the adjacent Pine Islets, where it appears to constitute the only arboreal vegetation. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 This sight evoked new assaults from my guides upon "the beasts" whom they accused of wanton and wilful violation of the arboreal beauty which the Allenburgers had loved. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War One afternoon late in August the tree was alive with its arboreal aristocracy. The Court of Boyville If a layman strays anywhere near one of these arboreal retreats, a gunner thrusts out a visage enflamed with righteous wrath, and curses him for giving the position away. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The road wound around the hills; here and there a break in the arboreal border showed views of rolling country, well-shaped and pleasing, winding up grassy slopes in groves of verdure. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East Know, then, O obtuse, faithless, and perverse skeptic, that these things are so: that ocular and auricular evidence, indubitable and overwhelming, exists, that the arboreal and human natures are in substance one. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The Devil's Dictionary Clayton had erected a frail partition of boughs to divide their arboreal shelter into two rooms—one for the girl and the other for Monsieur Thuran and himself. Return of Tarzan One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. Tarzan of the Apes It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. The Devil's Dictionary On the other hand, Gr-gr-gr's people were, for the most part, quite hairy, but they were tailless and had a language similar to that of the human race of Pellucidar; nor were they arboreal. Pellucidar When the tribe saw that Kerchak's rage had ceased they came slowly down from their arboreal retreats and pursued again the various occupations which he had interrupted. Tarzan of the Apes They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette. The Devil's Dictionary It opened wide upon a wonderful scene, an arboreal desert, dominated by its pure light green, yet lined by many merging colors. Desert Gold Nearly over the musician's head swung a hammock from which hung a leg; other hammocks hanging in the semi-gloom called up suggestions of lemurs and arboreal bats. The Blue Lagoon: a romance Those of our arboreal ancestors who struck bottom died forthwith. Before Adam This is a whiskered and colorless type, the latter characteristic pointing to the fact that he spends his days in arboreal seclusion. The Lost World Mary firmly believed that we should have got in time to our hairy ancestor with pointed ears and a tail, and have been able to ascertain whether he was arboreal in his habits or not. Peter Ibbetson With the loss of his tail, in the light of this new genesis, the monkey necessarily ceased to be arboreal in his habits. Life: Its True Genesis But, owing to their arboreal habits, monkeys were to a great extent freed from all these dangers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Up into the trees we went, and on and on, swinging our arboreal flight until we had put miles between us and the caves. Before Adam An arboreal animal would necessarily use all four limbs, as climbing animals actually do. Hormones and Heredity But these beast-things, used to arboreal work, to scaling cliffs, to every kind of dangerous adventuring, nearly all succeeded in clinging. Darkness and Dawn As an arboreal gymnast, he was manifestly on his way to more masterly feats of agility than ever,--those dependent, not on muscular function, but on the nervous action of the brain and spinal marrow. Life: Its True Genesis He would observe that their whole organization was specially adapted to an arboreal life, and this specialization would be rather against their claiming the first rank among terrestrial creatures. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 In every way it is adapted to an arboreal life, yet it is everywhere found on the level country, far removed from the conditions which one would imagine to be necessary to its existence. The Naturalist in La Plata The little peeping frogs lead a sort of arboreal life, too, a part of the season, but they are quite different from the true tree- toads above described. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Such impetuous birds living in large communities, and thus compounding a savour calculated to attract arboreal snakes, would in the course of nature take precautions. My Tropic Isle But who would expect anything worth while to come from a head so badly combed and placed on an Indian poorly shod, classified until recently among the arboreal animals? The Reign of Greed For the life of animals in the primeval forest is, as one glance would show you, principally arboreal. At Last Off his horse his motions are awkward, like those of certain tardigrade mammals of arboreal habits when removed from their tree. The Naturalist in La Plata In lieu of these arboreal rains we have the dew upon the grass, but it is doubtful if the grass ever drips as does a tree. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Though I have no evidence in confirmation of the theory, I am inclined to think that arboreal snakes are influential in causing changes. My Tropic Isle There was a damp, arboreal smell everywhere, mingled with the finer perfume of flowers and of the hawthorns and yellow laburnums. Hawthorne and His Circle The breadth of the arboreal landscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk. The Open Air One by one we lowered ourselves into the pit of our arboreal home and drifted into delicious languorous reveries, not of William Henry Thomas. The Cruise of the Kawa Therefore I shall leave the choice of arboreal associates to those who are to plant them—a choice best guided by observation of trees. The Home Acre The snake must have weighed several pounds, and apparently was not as dainty to the taste as the green arboreal variety, for after two days' occasional feasting there was still some of the flesh left. Confessions of a Beachcomber And when the arboreal crown was finished, and its edges were straight and sharp, an hour had passed since he began near noon. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley He has not yet forgotten his wild, free life, his arboreal habitations, and the sweet-bitter times he had in those long-gone ages. Winter Sunshine Indeed, I think there is no nest in the woods—no arboreal nest—so well concealed. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Boone was always fond of carving his exploits on trees, and his wanderings have been traced largely by his arboreal publications. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground It was more like a nightmare than a remembered vision of a concrete thing—more like the race-memory of man that makes him fall in his sleep and that goes back to his arboreal ancestry. When God Laughs: and other stories On the other hand, the purely arboreal kinds were rather numerous. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal, but besides green species, there are many black, and black-and-white kinds—all the species being apparently exposed to nearly the same dangers. The Descent of Man There he was, however, a tailed man with distinctly arboreal hands and feet. Tarzan the Terrible If the harvest mouse had been more strictly arboreal, it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition The arboreal habits of our primitive ancestors gave opportunities for constant observation of the practicalities of this law. A History of Science — Volume 1 The largest and most interesting portion of the Brazilian mammal fauna is arboreal in its habits; this feature of the animal denizens of these forests I have already alluded to. The Naturalist on the River Amazons It deserves notice that the feet of the sloths, the most arboreal animals in the world, are wonderfully hook- like. The Descent of Man He has a special line in arboreal villas. The Club of Queer Trades The rivers of the South creep under dim arboreal archways hung with banners of waving moss. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness As they proceeded and the sun rose higher, the voices of the arboreal jungle life rose in discordant notes and loud chattering about them. Tarzan the Untamed The arboreal forms are distinguished by the structure of the feet, which have broad spongy soles and toothed claws, enabling them to climb over and cling to branches and leaves. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The foot was then prehensile, judging from the condition of the great toe in the foetus; and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, and frequented some warm, forest-clad land. The Descent of Man "Are you really an agent for arboreal villas?" asked Rupert eagerly, recovering his ease with the romance of reality. The Club of Queer Trades Impressed by the proprietor's enthusiasm for arboreal development, Mr. Goodman began investigation and experiment. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister As compared with the entire duration of organic evolution, man came down from his arboreal abode and assumed his new role of increased domination over the physical world but a moment ago. Origin and Nature of Emotions The carnivorous beetles at Caripi were, like those of Para, chiefly arboreal. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Here we found unkempt laurel bushes and acacias run riot, from which arboreal tangle protruded the notice—"To be Let or Sold." The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Once we flew in the air, and once we dwelt arboreally and were afraid of the dark. The Jacket (Star-Rover) How else shall we account for the arboreal instincts that cling to his posterity? Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Some recent authorities hold, however, that the ancestor of the bird was an arboreal reptile. The Story of Evolution The different kinds of ant-eaters are thus adapted to various modes of life, terrestrial and arboreal. The Naturalist on the River Amazons All the other species of this singular genus are arboreal. The Naturalist on the River Amazons For the present all we can say is that in the earliest spread of the patriarchal mammal race one branch adopted arboreal life, and evolved in the direction of the femurs and the apes. The Story of Evolution The generally arboreal character of the Primates justifies this conclusion. The Story of Evolution This tendency, surviving after ages of living on the level ground, is a lingering effect of the far-off arboreal days. The Story of Evolution |
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