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- noun Plural form of
phalanger .
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Unlike ‘flying squirrels’ (rodents) and ‘flying phalangers’ (marsupials), colugos incorporate the tail into the gliding membrane.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Flying squirrels (two independent groups of rodents), and flying phalangers (Australian marsupials, looking almost exactly like flying squirrels but not closely related) stretch a membrane of skin between the arms and the legs.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Unlike ‘flying squirrels’ (rodents) and ‘flying phalangers’ (marsupials), colugos incorporate the tail into the gliding membrane.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Flying squirrels (two independent groups of rodents), and flying phalangers (Australian marsupials, looking almost exactly like flying squirrels but not closely related) stretch a membrane of skin between the arms and the legs.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The colugo, or so-called ‘flying lemur’, of the south-east Asian forests resembles the flying squirrels and flying phalangers, except that the tail, as well as the arms and legs, is included in the support structure of the flight membrane.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The colugo, or so-called ‘flying lemur’, of the south-east Asian forests resembles the flying squirrels and flying phalangers, except that the tail, as well as the arms and legs, is included in the support structure of the flight membrane.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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They were an odd assortment, from the more familiar rats and mice to bandicoots and phalangers.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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They were an odd assortment, from the more familiar rats and mice to bandicoots and phalangers.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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Stem: Insectivorous. the parachute types of the flying squirrels and phalangers, or into the true flying types of the bats ....
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Australia in the lump was wholly given over, on its first discovery, to kangaroos, phalangers, dasyures, wombats, and other quaint marsupial animals, with names as strange and clumsy as their forms.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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