Talk:Prehensile tail

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In the section titled "Ecology of the prehensile tail", I deleted the following sentence.

In contrast, in less dense forest such as in Southeast Asia it is observed that gliding animals tend to be more common instead, whereas there are few gliding vertebrates in South America.

Afaik birds which glide plenty and are quite plentifull in South America, are vertebrates, making this statement completely wrong. I suspect the statement should say 'mammals' instead of both 'animals' as well as 'vertebrates'. Anyway, I am deleting this sentence for the present. Anyone who knows better is welcome to correct and replace it. --Stagyar 06:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Birds are flying animals which can glide, but not gliding animals i.e animals that are notable for being able to glide but not fly. I have added examples to clarify. Thanks for pointing out that this might not be clear. Nicolharper 13:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)