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• Prehensile feet — are lower limbs that possess prehensility, the ability to grasp like a hand. They are most commonly observed in monkeys, who similarly possess prehensile tails, and apes.Due to the development of bipedalism in humans, the hands became the focus… …   Wikipedia

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