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| Prehensility is the quality of an organ that has adapted for
grasping or holding. Examples of prehensile body parts include
the tails of New World monkeys and opossums, the trunks of
elephants, the tongues of giraffes, the lips of horses and the
proboscides of tapir. The hands of primates are all prehensile
to varying degrees, and many species (even a few humans) have
prehensile feet as well. The claws of cats are also prehensile.
Many extant lizards have prehensile tails (geckos, chameleons,
and a species of skink). The fossil record shows prehensile
tails in lizards (Simiosauria) going back many million years to
the Triassic period - Celeskey (2005). Prehensile tails in
animals such as monkeys are articulated and thus limited to some
degree in flexibility. Zippel (1994) discovered that Corucia
zebrata - underlined, the Solomon Islands monkey skink has a
prehensile tail that has a sno