
05-11-2008, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by qwerty1234
- Bornean Orangutan - opposable thumbs on both hands and both feet. The interdigital grip gives them the ability to pick fruit.
- Gorillas-opposable on both hands and both feet.
- Chimpanzees have opposable thumbs on both hands and both feet.
- Lesser Apes have opposable thumbs on both hands and both feet.
- Old World Monkeys, with some exceptions, such as the genera, Piliocolobus and Colobus.
- Cebids (New World primates of Central and South America) - some have opposable thumbs.
- Koala - opposable toe on each foot, plus two opposable digits on each hand.
- Opossum - opposable thumb on rear feet.
- Giant Panda - Panda paws have five clawed fingers plus an extra bone that works like an opposable thumb. This "thumb" is not really a finger (like the human thumb is), but an extra-long sesamoid bone that works like a thumb.
- Troodon - a birdlike dinosaur with partially opposable thumbs.

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What about the bonobos?
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