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Long and slightly prehensile, but more like the tail of a panther than a monkey.
它们有尾巴。尾巴是细长而且可缠绕的，但比起猴子那更像是猎豹的尾巴。
Only the kinkajou's tail is prehensile, like a monkey's, and only the kinkajou has been a pet for Paris Hilton.
二者仅有的不同点在于蜜熊的尾巴像猴子一样可以用来抓握，而且还曾被帕里斯·希尔顿拿来当宠物养。
IT IS said that when the good burghers of Amsterdam were first presented with a rhinoceros—armoured, horned, three-toed, with a prehensile lip—spectators shook their heads in disbelief.
据说，当善良的阿姆斯特丹市民第一次看到犀牛的时候——皮厚如甲、头上长角、三个脚趾，还有它那能卷握东西的嘴唇——都摇头不信。

In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.
就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。
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In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.
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(of parts of the body) able to hold on to things, especially by curling around them