Question

Animals adapted to life in air are called
A. arboreal B. cursorial C. volant D. fossorial

Answer 1

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Animals adapted to life in air are called

A. arboreal✔

B. cursorial

C. volant

D. fossorial

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• They are the creatures who spend most of their lives in trees.
• They have elongated limbs, hard and powerful grip power & low center of mass.
• Arboreal animals have special claws which help them climb trees. 
• They eat and sleep in the tree canopy.
• Some examples of such animals are monkeys, sloths etc.
• Some movements of arboreal animals include climbing, swinging etc.
• These animals are very well adapted to staying or hanging on to trees.
• Some of them like spider monkeys have prehensile tails that help them to grasp tree branches.