Re: Bat Aerodynamics Reveal Surprises

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Guy Leahy <xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net>:

> I wonder if any of this would apply to pterosaurs?
>
> http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-082.html

Speaking as a non-functional-morphologist, I'd expect them to be pretty 
different.  Pterosaurs, after all, don't have all those joints within 
the surface of the wing.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also have the 
impression that pterosaur flight membranes would have been stiffer than 
those of bats.

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Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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