Re: FLIGHT & CATS

["Tim Williams" <tijawi@hotmail.com>]

Scott Hartman wrote:

> > > For cats and other mammals, sure.  What term do you use for birds that 
> > > feed on the ground, and spend a lot of their time there, but which 
> > > flutter up into a tree when danger approaches, or to nest?<<
>
>  Flyers?  I suspect that birds would absolutely not be arboreal without 
> flight.

Try telling that to _Microraptor_.

(In other words: I suspect otherwise.  I think flight came *after* 
arboreality.  Or at least some degree of arboreality in predatory proavian 
theropods.)


Tim


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