On the more exuberant side, aerial acrobats like gibbons might find it very difficult to swing from branch to branch without the special powers conferred by stereoscopy.
They suggest that this genetic "knockout" helped the gibbons to adapt to life in the trees: The lightweight animals swing from branch to branch with a speed and agility that puts most other primates to shame.
At times she was like a big tree that was firmly rooted in the middle of the baseline, extending her swinging branches to the side to clump a slew of fearsome backhands and forehands past a bewildered Nara.
It's a nice perspective, and because of the rigging that supports you, when you're swinging from branch to branch, there's a bit of weightlessness, an almost like walk-on-the-moon kind of feeling.
As the narrator swings from branch to branch through three generations of her family tree, the backdrop shifts between Viennese coffee houses and Burmese battlefields, conjuring a cast of chancers, footballers and poker addicts.
Predators play at preying; prey animals play at dodging and darting and getting away; monkeys play at swinging from branch to branch in trees; males of most species play at fighting; and so on.
Collect ripe seeds from the tree swinging a branch.
For sticks, they swung tree branches.
Like other diminutive primates, this one lived in trees, climbing, leaping and swinging from branches.
Čáslavská, fearing arrest, retreated to a remote forest hideout in the Jeseník mountains, where, for the final weeks of her training for the Mexico City Olympics, she swung from branches, lifted sacks of potatoes and practised her beam exercise on a log.
