Flying and gliding animals

For example, gliding mammal, the southern flying squirrel Glaucomys volans, is one of the first animals of which the activity pattern was first described (Aschoff 1966). All species of gliding mammals, including flying squirrels, colugos, and marsupial gliders, are believed to be nocturnal (Jackson 2012). However, although behaviours and activity patterns are also known in a lot of gliding mammals, such information is usually based on adult-biased observations

to the video, the feathers had more uses before flying. Feathers would have been useful to the ancestors of birds long before they took to the air. There's nothing better for insulation, which may have been their original function. They can be used to bluff an enemy, attract a mate or simply to show off. I feel like this is important because if the feathers were not originally for flying, it would gradually work its way up to that function. Gliding would be the next logical step. Microraptors

Have you ever seen -- or even heard -- of an animal called a sugar glider? These little gliding mammals, with the scientific name, Petaurus breviceps, are commonly found in Australia, Tasmania, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. They belong to the marsupial family which includes kangaroos, wombats, and koalas, and they are more active at night than during the day. Sugar gliders live in the wild, making their home in holes of old trees and rarely going down to the ground. Typically, they eat blossoms

the organisms climbing into trees jump out of those trees and glide down, eventually adapted to flap to increase drag. This theory is based in the skeletal similarities of gliding animals to those of birds.1 This tree-hopping evolution hypothesis is supported by Archaeopteryx, one of the prime examples of a transitional animal for flight. Archaeopteryx presents with long unfused claws that are adaptations for climbing and grasping.3 In addition, there are also presence of a furcula, and a bid like

she encounters along the way of her journey, such as attempting to commit suicide, suffering from deep depressions, and experiencing hallucinations of flying. Jamison struggled a great deal in college since she was unable to control her disability along with her schoolwork. In time, she started to take lithium to help control her disorder and her flying

At one point in time, Earth did not exist. Although there was no Earth, other planets still existed within our very universe. On these other planets not known to current mankind, lived humanoids relatively similar to you and I. Back when thought, emotions, or even time itself did not exist, there was a war of epic proportions happening on the main humanoid planet. Unfortunately for them, there was no light to see from, and no eyes to see from it with, so, to the humanoids, the battle was literally

One sunny spring morning, I was happily gliding through my home cave, when my dad called, “It’s hunting time!” “Coming!” I answered. Quickly, I flew to the mouth of the cave, trailing my wing onto the glistening surface of a pond and listening to the quiet clicking of crickets. I was using echolocation to locate my way through the dark cave. When I finally reached the mouth of the cave, my dad was instructing newborns how to hunt by using echolocation. After he was done instructing, our whole colony

The first bird is debated to be the Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany, believed to be 145 million years old. It resembled a crow-sized animal with feathers. If the feathers were not found, it would have been identified as a small dinosaur. It did however have a wishbone, found in birds, and it had bird like feet. Researchers believe that dinosaurs shrunk in size while adapting to new changes

environmental pressures were amounting in aquatic environments, vertebrates began to venture onto land. Sometimes it was for short excursions, sometimes a bit longer. A major step in vertebrate evolution was the advancement of the tetrapod, a vertebrate animal with

at the same time. All though our humanity has gave some sort of consent to the sport of hunting as long as we can remember, it sometimes is not accepted by many. It’s not just about killing an animal just to see the lifeless corpse fall to the ground, or to see how many, or how fast you can make an animal a victim of your weapon, but rather what you receive from the intense escapade of it all. You never really feel like one o'clock in the morning is a reasonable time to set out foot for a hunt.