What is Arboreal?
'''Arboreal''' is an [[adjective]] in [[biology]] for an [[animal]] which lives in the [[tree]]s. All [[forest]]s have had animals living in them. Those animals have [[adaptation]]s which enable them to live and move about in trees.<ref>Cartmill M. 1985. Climbing. In ''Functional vertebrate morphology''. eds. Hildebrand D et al. Belknap Press, Harvard. 73–88</ref> The earliest one known is ''[[Suminia]]'', a [[synapsid]] of the late [[Permian]], about 260 million years ago. <ref>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 [https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0911 DOI:10.1098/rspb.2009.0911]</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Evolutionary biology]]