Talk:Brachiation

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Brachiation - good for the brain?

I've removed a bit describing how brachiation causes blood to be pumped more rapidly to the brain, and that it is therefore good for kids. All exercise causes blood to be pumped more rapidly to the whole body, including the brain, so I fail to see how the information was remotely relevant to brachiation. Jamrifis 12:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

And why only children? Should this be removed? LaFoiblesse 2007-06-04 15:46 (GMT)

I can't see that any of it's particularly relevant... It's unsourced and contentious.... I shall remove it. Jamrifis 17:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Protobrachiator

Is "protobrachiator" a real word? Tried to look it up to no avail... I talked to someone here I work with that is an uber English nerd and she said

["It would probably mean, if it were a word, an earlier version of the structure enabling brachiation"]

Should we find a better word or somehow explain "protobrachiator" in the article? --Billy Nair (talk) 18:38, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

How exclusive?

The first paragraph reads "This form of locomotion is used exclusively by the small gibbons and siamangs of southeast Asia". I took that to mean that only the small gibbons and siamangs used brachiation, but later I read "Although great apes do not normally brachiate (with the exception of orangutans)...and healthy modern humans are still capable of brachiating". So, does the 'exclusively' for the small gibbons and siamangs mean that those two use ONLY brachiation? That doesn't seem to make sense. Perhaps "Extensively by the small gibbons and siamangs" is what is meant? TheOverflow (talk) 05:54, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Anthropologists like to classify primates into locomotor groups based on frequency of behavior and adaptations, such as the "vertical clingers & leapers", "brachiators", "semi-brachiators", etc. HCA (talk) 14:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Proposed section on parrots

Just read an article about how parrots have been shown to move similarly using their talons and beak to swing "sideways" along thin horizontal surfaces, which scientists have called "beakiation." (Absolutely fantastic name, might I add). Could someone with more ornithological background than I add this section? Or should it be its own page? Or should we wait until we have more info? I just think it's really fascinating and deserves some mention. --Join my bird cult.-- Cynthia-Coriníon (talk) 02:21, 7 February 2024 (UTC)