Arborícola

Arborícola ye un axetivu utilizáu en bioloxía pa calificar a un animal que vive nos árboles.

Tolos montes cuntaron siempres con animales viviendo nellos. Estos animales tienen adautaciones que-yos dexen vivir y movese nos árboles.^[1] El tetrápodu más antiguu que se conoz con adautaciones especializaes pa xubir a los árboles foi Suminia, un sinápsidu del Permianu superior, hai aproximao 260 millones d'años.^[2]

Referencies

↑ 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

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[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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