RE: FLIGHT & CATS

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

Tracy Ford wrote:

> Where is the glenoid in gliding squirrels and lemurs? Is it high on the 
> body
> like birds?  I was thinking of going to the San Diego Zoo and trying >to 
> get some of the handlers to show me. Maybe soon.

Good question.  Though you would probably want to compare gliding and 
non-gliding squirrels.  Even those animals that don't glide may have a 
glenoid facing upwards for normal arboreal living (vertical clinging, 
reaching up to grasp branches, etc).  Definitely something worth looking 
into.

I'll ask my wife if I can poke around the vertebrate anatomy lab she teaches 
in (again).  If I'm good, she might say yes.


> Quite right. Good gliders will stay good gliders.

Flapping only screws up the aspect ratio (as Norberg pointed out).



Tim

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