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A prehensile tail is a tail that can be used as a "fifth hand". Prehensile tails can be used to hold and manipulate objects. Most of the primates with tails have prehensile tails. Other animals with prehensile tails include the prehensile-tailed porcupine and the prehensile-tailed skink .

The term prehensile is sometimes incorrectly used when "agile" is meant; but the term means "able to grasp" (from the Latin prehendere, the root of "comprehend" and "apprehend").



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Prehensile tailA prehensile tail is a tail that can be used as a "fifth hand". Prehensile tails can be used to hold and manipulate objects. Most of the primates with tails have prehensile tails. Other animals with prehensile tails include the prehensile-tailed porcupinePrehensilePrehensile is an adjective referring to a body part adapted for grasping or holding. Examples of prehensility include the tails of monkeys and opossums, the penises of dolphins, the trunks of elephants, and the proboscises of tapirs. The word is derived f 


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