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More basal than the squaboons, but still related to them, is a monotypic species that forms its own genus with no relatives closer to it than to any other species.Though physically nondescript in many respects, this outlying species of primal scrounger is immediately memorable for being both very small and for its unusual habit of climbing trees with its feet, often swinging between perches upside down. Unlike the extinct boras - the fully-arboreal softbill birds of the mid-Ultimocene - it does not use its tentacles to grasp branches, and they are short and unspecialized in this species. Only weighing two or three pounds, twigswingers are one of the smallest scroungers,

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Description

More basal than the squaboons, but still related to them, is a monotypic species that forms its own genus with no relatives closer to it than to any other species.Though physically nondescript in many respects, this outlying species of primal scrounger is immediately memorable for being both very small and for its unusual habit of climbing trees with its feet, often swinging between perches upside down. Unlike the extinct boras - the fully-arboreal softbill birds of the mid-Ultimocene - it does not use its tentacles to grasp branches, and they are short and unspecialized in this species. Only weighing two or three pounds, twigswingers are one of the smallest scroungers,

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