Editing Prehensile tail (section)

==Animals with fully prehensile tails==

===Fish===
*[[Seahorses]]. Seahorses have fully prehensile tails, which they use to attach themselves to objects such as seagrass, algae, sponges, corals, or even man-made objects.

===Mammals===
[[File:Tamandua anteater Costa Rica.jpg|thumb|right|150px|A [[northern tamandua]] (''[[Tamandua mexicana]]'') making use of its prehensile tail]]
*[[Binturong]]. One of the few [[Old World]] animals with fully prehensile tails, although they use only the tip of the tail.
*[[Eurasian harvest mouse|Harvest mouse]]. Another Old World mammal, the [[Eurasian harvest mouse|harvest mouse]] (''Micromys minutus'') also has a fully prehensile tail. It is commonly found amongst areas of tall grasses such as cereal crops (particularly wheat and oats), roadside verges, hedgerows, reedbeds, dykes and salt-marshes.
*[[Tree pangolin]]. One of the few Old World mammals with a fully prehensile tail.
*''[[Microgale longicaudata]]'', an arboreal species of the [[Tenrec|tenrec family]].
*[[Platypus]]. The semi-aquatic [[monotreme]] found in [[Australia]]. Much the same as Opossums, Platypuses gather leaves to line their nests, using their tails to carry the materials they've collected.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQryoS-t45g&feature=youtu.be |title=Baby Platypus Caught on Camera |date=2023-10-09 |last=Nature on PBS |access-date=2024-08-17 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
*[[New World monkey]]s. Many New World monkeys in the family [[Atelidae]], which includes [[howler monkey]]s, [[spider monkey]]s and [[woolly monkey]]s, have grasping tails often with a bare [[tactile pad]]. This is in contrast with their distant [[Old World monkey]] cousins who do not have prehensile tails.<ref name="Flagle1998" />
*[[New World porcupine]]s of the genera ''[[Coendou]]'' and ''[[Chaetomys]]'' have fully prehensile tails that help them to climb and prevent them from falling from trees.<ref name="Roze2012" />
*[[Opossum]]. A [[marsupial]] group from the New World. Native to the [[Americas]], the tail is occasionally used as a grip to carry bunches of leaves or bedding materials to the nest.<ref name="GonzálezClaramunt2000">{{cite journal|last1=González|first1=E.M.|last2=Claramunt|first2=S.|title=Behaviors of captive short-tailed Opossums, ''Monodelphis dimidiata'' (Wagner, 1847) (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae)|journal=Mammalia|volume=64|issue=3|year=2000|pages=271–286 |doi=10.1515/mamm.2000.64.3.271|s2cid=84782113}}</ref>
*[[Anteater]]s. Anteaters are found in Central and South America. Three of the four species of anteater, the silky anteater and the two species of tamandua, have prehensile tails.
*[[Kinkajou]]. The kinkajou of South and Central America is the only other animal of the order [[Carnivora]], besides the binturong, to sport the adaptation.<ref name="Organ2008" />