page_title: Prehensility
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Prehensility / Examples
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Жираф. Парк "Lion Country Safari", Флорида, США English: Giraffe. "Lion Country Safari", Florida, USA
context_page_description: Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding. The word is derived from the Latin term prehendere, meaning "to grasp".
context_section_description: Appendages that can become prehensile include:
  The hands of primates are all prehensile to varying degrees
  Prehensile feet:
  The front feet of raccoons are prehensile.
  The feet of passerine birds can be prehensile
  Prehensile tails – New World monkeys have prehensile tails, as do many extant lizards (geckos, chameleons, and a species of skink). Seahorses grip seaweed with their tails. Several fossil animals have been interpreted as having prehensile tails, including several Late Triassic drepanosaurs, and possibly the Late Permian synapsid Suminia.
  Tongue – of giraffes in particular
  Nose – elephants, tapirs
  Lips – lake sturgeon, orangutans, horses and rhinos
  Cephalopod arm – arms such as those of octopuses
  Upper lip, such as that of the West Indian manatee
  Penises, such as that of the tapir
caption: Giraffe's prehensile tongue
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