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The patagium (pl.: patagia) is a membranous body part that assists an animal in obtaining lift when gliding or flying. The structure is found in extant...7 KB (813 words) - 15:45, 7 February 2024
colugo is the patagium, the weblike membrane that connects its limbs to allow for gliding. Unlike other mammals with patagia, its patagium extends from...17 KB (2,043 words) - 05:01, 12 April 2024
to glide significant distances between trees. This gliding membrane, or patagium, runs from the shoulder blades to the fore paws, from the tip of the rear-most...17 KB (1,646 words) - 04:58, 12 April 2024
flight, the back arches, forming the patagium into a cambered surface, and the forelimbs grab the front of the patagium, forming a straight front edge to...19 KB (1,796 words) - 09:57, 7 May 2024
possess a patagium, which is a skin membrane used in gliding from tree to tree. In this particular species of flying squirrel, their patagium spans between...8 KB (968 words) - 15:44, 22 April 2024
with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant mammal, is Kitti's...168 KB (18,182 words) - 04:17, 6 May 2024
eutriconodonts. A fossil Volaticotherium has an exquisitely preserved furry patagium with delicate wrinkles and that is very extensive, "sandwiching" the poorly...55 KB (5,615 words) - 04:25, 24 April 2024
members of Haramiyida and the eutriconodontan tribe Volaticotherini had a patagium akin to those of flying squirrels, allowing them to glide through the air...229 KB (24,755 words) - 22:50, 6 May 2024
in colour with dark flecks. The patagium of the male is tan to bright orange with dark banding. The female's patagium has irregular markings rather than...7 KB (695 words) - 07:05, 15 March 2023
but they are able to glide from one tree to another with the aid of a patagium, a furred skin membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle. Their long...28 KB (3,119 words) - 00:55, 2 May 2024
point to the fact that the presence of the structures extend past the patagium, and the presence of both aktinofibrils and filaments on Jeholopterus ningchengensis...142 KB (16,322 words) - 07:56, 3 May 2024
trees to forage for insects and glides to adjoining trees by expanding the patagium, loose skin on the sides of the body which is supported by elongated ribs...17 KB (1,863 words) - 10:33, 24 April 2024- uniting the forelimb with the body. The patagium of a bat has four distinct parts: Propatagium: the patagium present from the neck to the first digit...27 KB (3,228 words) - 00:08, 23 April 2024
Sciuridae. It is capable of gliding flight using a skin membrane, the patagium, stretched between front and hind legs. It is found in mainland Southeast...10 KB (1,073 words) - 18:59, 23 April 2024
a cartilaginous rod that aids them in maintaining the extension of the patagium when in flight; unlike flying squirrels, their cartilage originates at...7 KB (681 words) - 20:59, 27 February 2024
List of soaring birds Ratites Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water Patagium "Intermittent Flight Studies". Flight Laboratory. The University of Montana-Missoula...46 KB (5,608 words) - 23:25, 10 May 2024- form, including being able to sprout quills around his neck, extend a patagium to glide through the air like a flying squirrel, and most significantly...58 KB (6,835 words) - 19:42, 12 May 2024
- to 230 grams. Flying squirrels do not actually fly, they glide using a patagium created by a fold of skin. From atop trees, flying squirrels can initiate...16 KB (1,947 words) - 15:55, 17 April 2024
their patagium (gliding membrane) is supported on elongated ribs rather than the more common situation among gliding vertebrates of having the patagium attached...69 KB (8,379 words) - 00:39, 22 April 2024
tips of the fingers, toes, and nails. This kite-shaped skin is known as a patagium, which is expanded for gliding. It can glide over a distance of 100 m with...22 KB (2,604 words) - 04:59, 12 April 2024
- English Wikipedia has an article on: patagium Wikipedia Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from Ancient Greek παταγεῖον
- connected by a spongy patagium. The genus Amphiactura differs from the foregoing Diplactura in the development of a patagium between the arms, and therefore
- spread out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. There are about 1,100 bat species worldwide, which represent about twenty
- tag is a permanent tag held onto the wing by a rivet punched through the patagium. Where detailed information is needed on an individuals' movements, scientists