Arboreal
Specialized for tree life with prehensile limbs, gripping claws, and balance organs tuned for high branches.
Asian Weaver Ant
Arboreal architects that pull leaves together, even forming living chains, then glue them with silk squeezed from their own larvae.
Binturong
Shaggy Southeast Asian bearcat that smells like hot buttered movie popcorn, climbing through tropical forest canopies with a thick prehensile tail.
Boa Constrictor
A nonvenomous snake that stops its prey's heart from pumping, and one mother on record who had daughters with no father.
Clouded Leopard
Longer fangs for its skull size than any other wild cat, and ankles that rotate so it can hang from the branches by its back feet.
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
The monkey whose tail works as a fifth limb.
Kinkajou
A nocturnal canopy climber that twists 180 degrees between pelvis and head, can hang by its tail and reaches nectar with a 13 cm tongue.
Lar Gibbon
A rainforest singer whose pair duets average 11 minutes and carry up to a kilometre.
Mantled Howler Monkey
A leaf-eating monkey whose males' calls seem to help keep neighbouring troops apart.
Panther Chameleon
The Madagascar color-shifter that retunes a lattice of skin nanocrystals within a couple of minutes, swivels its eyes through a 360-degree arc, and fires a hyoid-launched tongue up to twice its body length.
Paradise Flying Snake
The tree-dwelling serpent that splays its ribs and flattens its body into a triangular lifting surface when it glides.
Pygmy Marmoset
The world's smallest monkey, small enough to fit in a human hand, gouges holes in tree bark and laps up the sap that puddles inside.
Red Panda
Ringed bushy tail, false thumb wrist bone, and bamboo-eating acrobats in high Himalayan forests.
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
A neon-green rainforest sleeper whose flash of scarlet eyes and bright flanks may give a predator pause long enough to escape.
Sunda Colugo
Southeast Asian mammal with a furred gliding membrane from neck to fingers, toes and tail, carrying it up to 100 metres with little height loss.
Tufted Capuchin
A stocky Amazon monkey that smashes fruit its jaws cannot crack, or opens it with a piece of branch.
Veiled Chameleon
A tongue that can shoot to full length in 26 milliseconds, eyes that look two ways at once, and a casque that collects water.