A colugo with its young hangs upside down, with the pink skin of its gliding membrane visible between its limbs. A colugo with its young hangs upside down, with the pink skin of its gliding membrane ...
Everyone has always assumed that animals glide to save energy, but when researchers attached acclerometer/radio transmitter back packs to colugos in the Singapore rainforest, they discovered that ...
Berkeley -- The "flying" lemur of Malaysia is the champion of all gliding mammals, able to drop from the forest canopy, glide more than the length of two football fields, execute 90-degree turns and ...
Why it's awesome: Colugos are commonly called "flying lemurs," but the name is misleading. These nocturnal mammals look somewhat like lemurs, with small, furry faces that are dominated by a pair of ...
With large goggle-like eyes, webbed feet, and a full-body wingsuit made of skin, the flying lemur looks like an unconventional superhero soaring through the trees. Its elusive nature and peculiar ...
A dad and his kids saw a “lost” Sunda colugo gliding outside an apartment building near Bukit Batok Nature Park, rare video shows. Screengrabs from @MustShareNews' TikTok video A “lost” creature ...
Among the gliding animals, the colugo or "flying" lemur of Southeast Asia is the champ. It's able to glide the length of two football fields with its doormat-sized skin flaps. Researchers are ...
Gripping tightly to a tree trunk, at first sight a colugo might be mistaken for a lemur. However, when this animal leaps it launches into a graceful glide, spreading wide the enormous membrane that ...
Gliding mammals called colugos sail through the air using membranes that stretch between their limbs and resemble the wings of bats. But these furry gliders are actually a sister group to primates, a ...