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  • Ardipithecus was aboreal, meaning it lived largely in the forest where it competed with other forest animals for food, including the contemporary ancestor for the chimpanzees.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010

  • Ardipithecus was aboreal, meaning it lived largely in the forest where it competed with other forest animals for food, including the contemporary ancestor for the chimpanzees.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010

  • He simply finds a good low place in the woods and slathers his face, neck and ears with black muck from the aboreal forest.

    Sun Journal top news 2010

  • The idea in the movie is that Pandora includes a lineage of primate-like animals whose evolution has closely paralleled primate evolution on Earth: early on in the movie, we see the hexapodal, aboreal Prolemuris.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • We walked along nicely paved sidewalks lining streets with aboreal dividers to a cute cafe that serves bagels and filter coffee.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • We walked along nicely paved sidewalks lining streets with aboreal dividers to a cute cafe that serves bagels and filter coffee.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • Dial said a lot of "silver-backed biologists" have spent their careers writing untold volumes of work defending the aboreal and cursorial positions.

    unknown title 2009

  • Dial said a lot of "silver-backed biologists" have spent their careers writing untold volumes of work defending the aboreal and cursorial positions.

    unknown title 2009

  • He said the Northern carpet python, a semi-aboreal snake found throughout most parts of Australia, is "completely harmless to humans".

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

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