arboreal

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• Recent surveys since the turn of the century have discovered a dozen new species of amphibians and lizards including a new type of glass frog and an arboreal iguana.

• For many arboreal animals, “jumping between limbs is such a common thing, and yet we so frequently only study it in pieces,” Graham says, such as looking just at the launch but not the landing.

• 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.

• The work didn’t have the romance and danger of trying to outflank an advancing inferno, but it provided the gratification of turning arboreal debris into tinder for—one hoped—less devastating fires.

• They are seeking help from lawmakers with limited power and developers who often have little incentive to preserve an arboreal landscape threatened by advancing blacktop.

• Yet it is doubtful if the man-ape long remained a specially arboreal animal.

• The organization of man renders it questionable if his primeval ancestor was arboreal to any similar extent.

• Arboreal life could teach them little more; continuance in that school would have meant a very comfortable stagnation.

• Our ancestors became at home in and well adapted to arboreal life, but the adaptation was never extreme.

• Arboreal life was an excellent preparatory training toward human development.