Assertion: opossum's tail | /r/HasProperty | prehensile
Facets:
value: strongly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Their tails are still somewhat prehensile, helping opossums to balance and brace themselves as they climb.
text: American opossums have prehensile tails which they largely use to climb as well as to stabilize their position whilst moving between the trees.
text: Their tails are prehensile and can be used to help them climb and hold onto tree branches.
text: Opossums have prehensile tails and opposable big toes
text: Like some New World monkeys, opossums have prehensile tails.
text: Opossums have prehensile tails, and excellent control over them.
text: Opossums have prehensile tails and opposable thumbs on their rear feet.
text: Opossums are small- to medium-sized, pouched (most of them) mammals (marsupials, like kangaroos and koalas) with pointed snouts, and nearly hairless tails that are prehensile, as are their hands and feet.
text: Opossums also have a prehensile tail, from which they can occasionally hang.
text: They have a prehensile tail and appendages called hallux on their hands and feet which act like thumbs to help them climb trees and navigate their arboreal environment.
text: The tail is prehensile and naked on its lower underside.
text: Like some New World monkeys, opossums have prehensile tails.
text: Its hairless tail is prehensile and is used for grasping branches, balancing and carrying nesting material.
text: Opossums have a prehensile tail, which can curl around a small branch and let the animal suspend its body.
text: It uses its prehensile tail to help stabilize position when climbing, much the same way as a mouse will use its tail to maintain balance when it climbs a wheat stalk to nosh on the grain.
text: The opossum’s tail is prehensile, meaning it can wrap around and hold on to tree limbs, an aid in climbing.
text: Tails in the other species are prehensile, slender, and longer than the head and body.
text: However, though the opossum does use his prehensile tail to assist in climbing, the adult is far too heavy to support himself by his tail alone.
text: An opossum’s tail is prehensile (pre-hensuhl), which means it can curl around things.
text: The tail is prehensile, meaning it can wrap around and hold onto things
text: An opossum’s tail is prehensile, meaning it can curl around things.
text: The tail is prehensile–hairless, scaly-looking, long and used for grasping things.
text: The tail is about a foot long and is prehensile.
text: Such useful tails are said to be prehensile.
text: It uses its prehensile tail to help stabilize position when climbing, much the same way as a mouse will use its tail to maintain balance when it climbs a wheat stalk to nosh on the grain.
text: However, though the opossum does use his prehensile tail to assist in climbing, the adult is far too heavy to support himself by his tail alone.
text: Their tails are only semi-prehensile, unlike the fully prehensile tail characteristic of the North American opossum.
text: Their tails are naked, rat-like, and semi-prehensile.
text: Their tails are rat-like and prehensile, meaning they can grasp items and aid in climbing.
text: Its tail is prehensile.
text: It also has a prehensile tail and spends a great deal of time in Eucalyptus trees where it feeds on leaves.
text: Like most other possums, brushtail possums have prehensile tail.
text: Using their prehensile tail for extra balance, possums can walk, jump, and move around tree branches easily.
text: Possums have prehensile tails, meaning they are made for grasping and wrapping around things like tree branches.
text: The striped possum's tail is prehensile.
text: Possums have a prehensile tail, meaning they can use it as an additional limb.
text: They are characterized by prehensile tails.
text: The Ringtail Possum has a strongly prehensile tail that has a white tip which it keeps coiled when it is not using.