Re: "Flight theory has legs"

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

James R. Cunningham (jrccea@bellsouth.net) wrote:

<What about Desmondus rotundus (pardon my clumsy attempt at spelling -- I
didn't bother to look it up)?>

  This was why I wrote "the main method;" the common vampire and other
microchiropteran bats can leap up from the ground into flight, as I know
Jim has seen and studied to some degree. But all bats primarily drop from
a hanging position, and this is their main method of getting into the air.

  Cheers,


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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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