Re: WING FEATHER ATTACHMENT

[Michael Bruce Habib <mbh3q@cms.mail.virginia.edu>]

It has occurred to me that I made an error in my earlier 
posts.  I said that all extant gliders (those without 
powered flight) use a surface stretched across all four 
limbs. What I meant is that all _limbed_ gliders do this, 
the gliding snakes obviously do not (no limbs, obviously).

So I'm just not thinking well at all today...

Oh, speaking of gliding snakes, does anyone have any ideas 
on how the suckers stay in the air that they could send my 
way off-list (since it's not dinosaur related)?  I admit it 
puzzles me a bit. I'm speaking of members of the genus 
Chrysopelea.

Thanks,

Michael Habib
mbh3q@virginia.edu
Student, Biology Department
University of Virginia