Write a tweet thread retelling Holder’s meeting with Mingo the spider monkey and his prehensile tail.

Mingo’s fifth hand

Holder met a spider monkey whose tail worked like a fifth hand.

At first he saw only a snakelike tip slipping between the doghouses.

Mingo’s fifth hand

That tip coiled around a puppy’s leg and gently dragged him next door.

A kitten followed the same way—tail-first, almost without protest.

Mingo’s fifth hand

Then Mingo himself appeared: tall, slender, spiderlike.

One arm held the puppy. His marvelous tail still clasped the kitten’s leg.

Mingo’s fifth hand

Holder’s point still lands: for some animals a “hand” is wherever the grip is strongest.

Mingo’s fifth hand was his tail.

Mingo’s fifth hand