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Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in
mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals
with flapping flight. The skeletomuscular apparatus of the shoulder
girdle and forelimbs of tree shrews, flying lemurs and bats is
described in detail. Special attention is paid to the recognition
of peculiar features of the skeleton and joints. For the basic
locomotor patterns of flying lemurs and bats, the kinematic models
of the shoulder girdle elements are developed. The most important
locomotor postures of these animals are analyzed by means of
statics. The key structural characters of the shoulder girdle and
forelimbs of flying lemurs and bats, the formation of which
provided transition of mammals from terrestrial locomotion to
gliding and then, to flapping flight, are recognized. The concept
is proposed that preadaptations preceding the acquisition of
flapping flight could have come from widely sprawled forelimb
posture while gliding from tree to tree and running up the thick
trunks. It is shown that flying lemur is an adequate
morphofunctional model for an ancestral stage of bats. The
evolutionary ecomorphological scenario describing probable
transformational stages of typical parasagittal limbs of
chiropteran ancestors into wings is developed.
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