Flying Mammals and Adaptations | Vertebrates | Chordata | Zoology
Many mammals, specially living in forest areas, have become modified to live on trees. Their mode of living is named as arboreal. Arboreal mammals are able to climb the trees and use their branches as the highways. There are three possible modes of aerial locomotion or flight-gliding, soaring and flapping. Gliding is the rudimentary flight displayed by certain fishes (Exocoetus), [...]