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Napier and Napier (1967), whose categorization has often been criticized and sometimes modified, but never replaced, divided the prosimians into the following locomotor categories: slow climbing (and bridging), branch running and walking, vertical clinging and leaping.
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Preuschoft, H., Witte, H., Fischer, M. (1995). Locomotion in Nocturnal Prosimians. In: Alterman, L., Doyle, G.A., Izard, M.K. (eds) Creatures of the Dark. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2405-9_27
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