Though my Shahi are pretty much tree-living elves, I still think of them as human, only with pointy ears. From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: Non-Human Characters « Coyote Con] Reference
The primates began as arboreal (tree-living) creatures, and all but some of the larger specimens still are. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The kingdoms maintained the roads that linked the empire, if their people were capable of it, which (for instance) the tree-living Hanging People were not. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
These characters were shown to be typical of arboreal Vertebrates, and their occurrence in forms not arboreal indicated that these were descended from tree-living ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The evidence indicates that the critics are both right - birds did not evolve either from running dinos or from tree-living mini-crocodiles. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
Their nursery building has a playroom fitted out with a climbing frame, hammocks and ropes to encourage natural, arboreal tree-living orang-utan behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"Any number," replied the skipper, "if we could penetrate to where they are; the great tree-living ones, and those water-boas that live among the swamps and pools.". From Wordnik.com. [Fitz the Filibuster] Reference
A new study of an ancient four-legged creature called, poised on the boundary between dinosaurs and birds, suggests that the arboreal, or tree-living, idea may be correct. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
If we consider, for instance, the squirrels, one of the best-known groups of tree-living animals, we find them to be members of the great order of rodents, whose native habitat is the land surface. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
Like rats deserting a sinking ship, a whole Noah's ark of tree-living creatures was hastening along a single cable shorewards: tree-crickets; ants laden with eggs and larvæ; mantids gesticulating as they walked, like old men who mumble to themselves; wood-roaches, some green and leaf-like, others, facsimiles of trilobites -- but fleet of foot and with one goal. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
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