is that many gliding animals eat low energy foods such as leaves and are restricted to gliding because of this, whereas flying animals eat more high...

gliding animals and by aircraft such as gliders. This mode of flight involves flying a significant distance horizontally compared to its descent and therefore...

assists an animal in obtaining lift when gliding or flying. The structure is found in extant and extinct groups of flying and gliding animals including...

scaly-tailed squirrel Flying and gliding animals Gliding possum Lu, Xuefei (24 June 2012). "The Evolution and Paleobiogeography of Flying Squirrels (Sciuridae...

lizards that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards. These lizards are capable of gliding flight via membranes that may be...

American comedy television series Flying, a 1974 book by Kate Millett Fly (disambiguation) Flying and gliding animals This disambiguation page lists articles...

courses. These gliding competitions test pilots' abilities to make best use of local weather conditions as well as their flying skills. Local and national competitions...

Formation flying is the flight of multiple objects in coordination. Formation flying occurs in nature among flying and gliding animals, and is also conducted...

related to modern flying fish, with the wing-like pectoral fins being convergently evolved in both lineages. Flying and gliding animals Neuston Tradeoffs...

Kite types Gliding Flying and gliding animals Pennycuick (1972) System and method for wind-powered flight Dale C. Kramer Pennycuick, C.J.; Animal flight,...

running out of fuel in 1983 Glide (disambiguation) Gliding (disambiguation) Flying and gliding animals This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

the testes Patagium, also known as "flight membrane", in some flying and gliding animals Pterygium, a triangular membrane occurring in eyes Cell membranes:...

Argentavis Flying and gliding animals Shearwaters which use a similar technique Soaring at Stanford Birds hosted by Stanford University and based on The...

study of animals from Taiwan. One red and white giant flying squirrel weighed 4,290 g (9.46 lb), by far the highest reported for any gliding mammal, but...

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air and water Flying and gliding animals The Flying Mobulas of the Sea of Cortez Muramatsu, K., J. Yamamoto, T. Abe, K. Sekiguchi, N. Hoshi, and Y. Sakurai...

position of a bird emblazoned as a charge, supporter or crest Flying and gliding animals Volant skis, a U.S. ski manufacturer Volant, Pennsylvania, a small...

Soaring (album) a 1973 Big Band jazz album by Don Ellis Bird flight Flying and gliding animals Dynamic soaring Ridge soaring Controllable slope soaring Orographic...

forward flying and backward flying. Although, it was originally thought that backward flying would be much less efficient. Similar to backward flying, backward...

anomalures and are part of the same sub-Saharan African radiation of gliding mammal. These animals resemble mice with gliding membranes and long, sparsely-haired...

There are many different types of gliding possum, sometimes referred to as volplane possum, flying phalangers, or simply as gliders: Australian gliders...

A flying frog (also called a gliding frog) is a frog that has the ability to achieve gliding flight. This means it can descend at an angle less than 45°...

Fluid Dynamics Mass flow rate Hemorheology Flying and gliding animals Moyes & Schulte (2008). Principles of Animal Physiology. Pearson Benjamin Cummings....

Diurnal activity Evolutionary origins in flooded forests Flying and gliding animals Yanoviak S. P., and Dudley, R. "The role of visual cues in directed aerial...

importance in avoiding predators and its extreme demand for energy. Birds portal Flight call Flying and gliding animals Insect flight List of soaring birds...

self-propelled, e.g., running, swimming, jumping, flying, hopping, soaring and gliding. There are also many animal species that depend on their environment for...

gliding being used to either find another foraging tree or to find possible mates and protect territory. Colugos are shy, nocturnal, solitary animals...

water, so filtration should not be too powerful.[citation needed] Flying and gliding animals List of freshwater aquarium fish species Moelants, T. (2010)....

were also very successful flying animals, and there were apparently some flying dinosaurs (see Flying and gliding animals#Non-avian dinosaurs). Each...

flight Flying and gliding animals Insect flight Tetrapteryx, a four-winged stage proposed by William Beebe; hindlimb feathers on Microraptor and Anchiornis...