Arboreal

Arboreal is an adjective in biology for an animal which lives in the trees.

All forests have had animals living in them. Those animals have adaptations which enable them to live and move about in trees.^[1] The earliest one known is Suminia, a synapsid of the late Permian, about 260 million years ago. ^[2]

Arboreal Media

Leopards are great climbers and can carry their kills up their trees to keep them out of reach from scavengers and other predators
Gibbons are very good brachiators because their elongated arms enable them to easily swing and grasp on to branches
The silky anteater uses its prehensile tail as a third arm for stabilization and balance, while its claws help better grasp and climb onto branches
The gecko's toes adhere to surfaces via dry adhesion, to allow them to stay firmly attached to a branch or even a flat wall
Arboreal snails use their sticky slime to help in climbing up trees since they lack limbs to do so

References

↑ Cartmill M. 1985. Climbing. In Functional vertebrate morphology. eds. Hildebrand D et al. Belknap Press, Harvard. 73–88
↑ Jörg Fröbisch and Robert R. Reisz 2009. The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Online First DOI:10.1098/rspb.2009.0911

[1] Cartmill M. 1985. Climbing. In Functional vertebrate morphology. eds. Hildebrand D et al. Belknap Press, Harvard. 73–88

[2] Jörg Fröbisch and Robert R. Reisz 2009. The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Online First DOI:10.1098/rspb.2009.0911

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