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alexd1976 wrote:You don't need a thumb to be prehensile many marsupials, as well as Pandas are prehensile without thumbs.Milo v3 wrote:It is not prehensile, so no.Nor does it have thumbs.
A thumb might be required for using guns though, when you think of the anatomy.
Often, when a creature uses a prehensile tail, the pull is perpendicular to the object they are holding (ie- the monkey at most hangs down from from the branch they are grapsing, like so: T)
But guns, at least the flintlock kind used in the game that need a ram rod to pack in powder in bullets... that is in line with the object held (ie- I). Does a tail hold onto the gun well enough that it doesn't slip out of the tail's grasp? I mean...the way it is bound is exceedingly siple, and the constraints of bone means it only wraps around once at best. Compare that to multiple fingers, as well as the thum providing support from a different angle.

alexd1976 |

alexd1976 wrote:You don't need a thumb to be prehensile many marsupials, as well as Pandas are prehensile without thumbs.Milo v3 wrote:It is not prehensile, so no.Nor does it have thumbs.
Produce video of one of those reloading a gun using that tail and we can continue this line of thought.