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Scientific American, Vol. 98, No. 9 (1908) (1908)

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tance to the air, and turns the squirrel as Chiroptera, or hand-winged animals. The thumb into something analogous to our piece of card. Its journeys. In a word, these frogs simply glide upon the air, their big feet acting as aeroplanes. of the bat ‘is free, and terminates in a hooked claw; weight… … The Flight of a Flying Squirrel. The Principle of a Squirrel’s Flight. carries it only a short distance in an upward direction. flying fish, although at one time it was widely credited between them stretches a skin or membrane, to which, But at this point the squirrel shows itself superior that…

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