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What does brachiation mean?

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Noun
  1. (zoology) Movement by swinging the arms from one hold to the next.
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The gibbons' specializations for brachiation may be derived from these same traits, rather than the other way about.
Primate locomotion can be classified on behavioral grounds into four major types: vertical clinging and leaping, quadrupedalism, brachiation, and bipedalism.
An ape is defined by the ability to move through the trees swinging arm over arm in a form of locomotion called brachiation.
Like the gibbon, the siamang is diurnal and arboreal and moves by brachiation, progressing from one point to another by swinging from its arms.
Brachiation is not only an effective form of locomotion, and it also allows the gibbons to reach and harvest every fruit of a branch.
In primate species in which brachiation is fully developed, a primate can move through the trees faster than a human can walk on the ground.

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