Re: Pterosaur Track Show Bird-Like Landing

[Mike Habib <habib@jhmi.edu>]

For those that want more videos or information on the ceiling landings  
in bats, they are from the research of Dan Riskin, at Brown  
University.  He has some great resources online, and is a great  
resource, himself, on bat mechanics.  Note that the inverted bat  
landings differ (as one would anticipate) from ground landings.

Cheers,

--Mike


Michael Habib
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On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:11 AM, David Peters wrote:

> Pterosaur tracks show it touched down like a bird New Scientist - 19  
> August 2009 by Colin Barras
> More at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17633-pterosaur-tracks-show-it-touched-down-like-a- 
>  bird.html
>
>
> Dr. Padian had me create a short GIF movie showing how this was  
> done, which he showed as part of his presented abstract. This is  
> available on request.
> I don't think any 4-point touchdown has been envisioned yet for  
> pterosaurs, but there's one here for bats
> http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/03/20/multimedia/1194838795031/four-point-landing.html
> And here's the complementary 2-point landing, both inverted
> http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/03/20/multimedia/1194838795145/two-point-landing.html
> and then there's the swimming stroke
> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39767/title/Fifty-two_things_to_do_with_a_bat_wing
>
> Those darn bats!
>
> David Peters
> St. Louis