Far up a giant Amazon jungle tree, a large howler monkey walked among the branches. As it stepped from branch to branch, its long tail would wrap around a convenient trunk providing extra stability.
On this week’s Wild Wednesday, Great Plains Zoo Education Specialist Elizabeth Mansell teaches us about the prehensile-tailed skink!
DEAR PET TALK: Why do animals have tails? — Animal Lover DEAR ANIMAL LOVER: Tails are simply amazing. Do you wish you had one? If you love climbing trees, you could use a prehensile tail, such as ...
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee County Zoo on Wednesday announced that a prehensile-tailed porcupine was born March 27 in the Small Mammals building. The baby, whose gender is not yet known, is the second ...
This is the tail of a veiled chameleon; it’s a prehensile tail, meaning it’s able to grasp and hold onto objects. In the wild, these lizards live most of their lives in the trees and use their tails ...