{"id":239193,"date":"2024-04-13T23:50:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/the-prehensile-tail-fifth-wheel-on-the-wagon-quite-the-opposite\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:16:09","slug":"the-prehensile-tail-fifth-wheel-on-the-wagon-quite-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/the-prehensile-tail-fifth-wheel-on-the-wagon-quite-the-opposite\/","title":{"rendered":"The prehensile tail &#8211; fifth wheel on the wagon? Quite the opposite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt similar to this anteater last year during a climbing forest course on the Wasserkuppe, when I was left hanging helplessly from a ropeway between two of the wooden platforms and could no longer go back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>What I would have given, like the anteater, to have a practical climbing aid on my body. The <strong>anteater<\/strong> uses its <strong>prehensile tail<\/strong> skillfully <strong>when climbing<\/strong>, it is like <strong>a fifth arm<\/strong> and makes the anteater the perfect <strong>climbing master<\/strong>. The saying &#8220;No master has yet fallen from the sky&#8221; can therefore be taken literally in the case of the anteater. Falling from trees is the least of the little anteater&#8217;s problems. The habitat fragmentation is more of a problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/tropicaverde.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/15\/ameisenbaer-sucht-frau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">You can find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you like my drawing? Then I would be delighted if you share and comment on them! Fortunately, I was able to get out of the situation in the climbing forest with the help of my sister. The little anteater would certainly have solved this more elegantly \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Yours, Jenny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterplace.org\/de\/projects\/36425-ameisenbar-sucht-frau-werde-zum-wingman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">  Help to ensure the survival of this fascinating tree dweller in western Costa Rica.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt similar to this anteater last year during a climbing forest course on the Wasserkuppe, when I was left hanging helplessly from a ropeway between two of the wooden platforms and could no longer go back and forth. What I would have given, like the anteater, to have a practical climbing aid on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[185,162,177,175,152,180,183,186,173,182,168,187,184],"class_list":["post-239193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monte-alto","tag-anteater-en-2","tag-anteater-en","tag-anteater-seeks-wife","tag-bosque-seco-tropical-en","tag-costa-rica-en","tag-monte-alto-en","tag-nature-conservation","tag-oso-hormiguero-en","tag-reforestation","tag-tamandua-en","tag-tropical-dry-forest-en","tag-tropical-forest","tag-tropical-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250309,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239193\/revisions\/250309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}