Like the trees that produce them, bristlecone needles are long-lived; they last up to 30 or 40 years. While living bristlecone limbs thus ... that tree is, it is still the very same tree that ...
In a mountain valley of Central America, a “smooth” creature used its “long” limbs to cling to a tree trunk. Its “large” eyes scanned the dark rainforest, but it wasn’t the only one looking around.