From: Paula Goodman <paulawilder@mac.com>
To: nick0page@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Origin of flight
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:56:16 -0700
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Sounds like a wonderful hypothesis to me - much better than the thing
about climbing trees -- did you get any responses on this?
Paula
On Sep 10, 2007, at 3:58 AM, Nick Page wrote:
A few months ago I was sitting in my garden when I noticed what I took to
be a rather dimwitted bird catching insects off the lower leaves of a
shrub.
I am not a bird expert but it was some sort of small/medium sized black
bird.
It was catching the insects by jumping off the ground and gaining height
into the foliage (no more than 30 cms) with a few flaps of its wings,
catching insects with its beak, and then falling rather clumsily to the
ground and disturbing the leaves as it fell.
It kept this procedure up for about 3 or 4 minutes and seemed to catch a
lot of insects by this method.
I then thought that a reptile with proto winglike forelimbs could do the
same job.
The more efficient jumpers and flappers would be at an evolutionary
advantage and get the most insects.
Nick Page
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