
Robin Ince Meets Richard Dawkins
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Flying Squirrels Glide Into Trees
If you're a squirrel who is already leaping from branch to branch, and you can perhaps leap from here to that loud speaker f ers as an ordinary squirrel could do. So it doesn't matter how small is the increase in surface area that you put on your body, it will get you just that much further. And these flying squirrels have that how this membrane is called a patagium, and they glide very successfully. Then there are frogs, which do the same thing, using the skin between their toes and fingers. They stretch their elongated fingers and toes, and they use that as a flight surface. There's also the ground up theory, which some people think is more
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