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cab67

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8. flying foxes fly perfectly well.

Reply to canetoad (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 8, 2026, 08:55 PM

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All bats do.

Flying lemurs glide the way a sugar glider (or, in our hemisphere, a flying squirrel) would. They have flaps of skin between the hands and feet that act like an airfoil. These generate lift, but not thrust. Flapping allows bats to generate thrust as well as lift.

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useless trivia. [View all] cab67 Yesterday OP

It could make an interesting sentence ... dweller Yesterday #1

Best wishes on your lecture. GreenWave Yesterday #2

That's what I was thinking wendyb-NC Yesterday #3

Useless has a flavor all it's own Buzz cook Yesterday #4

"skin beast" sounds like what's on Trump's neck. dameatball Yesterday #5

Don't make me release the flying Lemurs mercuryblues Yesterday #6

or the dogs. or the bees. cab67 Yesterday #9

Very cool canetoad Yesterday #7

flying foxes fly perfectly well. cab67 Yesterday #8

There ya go! canetoad Yesterday #10

Weird coincidence -- I was just flipping through Prothero's "Princeton Field Guide" to refresh my memory on some ... eppur_se_muova Yesterday #11

The living tree sloths arose independently from different ground-sloth ancestors. cab67 7 hrs ago #12

That's what I remembered. It's just sort of fascinatingly weird. eppur_se_muova 6 hrs ago #13