(5) Which animals other than birds can fly? What are the adaptations in their body
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A significant number of a feathered creature's bones are empty which makes winged animals' bodies lightweight. Flying fowls have vast chest muscles that move the wings. Winged animals have plumes that assistance them fly. The main warm blooded animal that is really fit for controlled flight is the bat.
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Other than birds, insects and bats can also fly.
Adaptations in insects to fly:
- Insects are tiny and light in weight. Compared to a bird, their wings are smaller and flatter.
- The wings lie flat when they are at rest. The wings curve like an airfoil when the wing beats in the air.
- The bug pushes against the air as it flaps its wings. The bug is then propelled upward and ahead.
- Insects can have one set of wings or two sets.
- Insects have wings that are joined to the center of their bodies.
- When an insect has two sets of wings, the front and back wings are often joined to provide a larger area. They can exert more power against the air because to this.
- Specialized flight muscles are employed to propel wings.
Adaptations in bats to fly:
- A flying mammal is a bat.
- The membrane that makes up a bat wing is held in place by the arm and the hand's noticeably extended fingers.
- This supports the distal, or thrust-producing, portion of the wing.
- Echolocation, acute senses, a modified pectoral girdle, a big humerus and ulna, clawed fingers, and a high metabolic rate are just a few of the flight adaptations that bats possess.
- The uropatagium, a membrane stretched between the hindlimbs, is another feature that helps the bat stay stable while flying and is frequently used to catch prey.
- Given that most gliders include their hindlimbs into their gliding airfoil, it is believed that this was initially a gliding adaption.
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