tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post7408786511372372760..comments2024-02-25T12:26:48.318-08:00Comments on Metazoica: New Family Posted: The Cryptopters!!!Dee TimmyHutchFanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-76029184457929610202008-08-31T17:45:00.000-07:002008-08-31T17:45:00.000-07:00As for the feet, I'm figuring bats to learn how to...As for the feet, I'm figuring bats to learn how to pearch, like birds, which will turn their feet foreward.<BR/><BR/>The rest, I will have to think how to integrate them into these animals. "Jump like grasshoppers"? Hmm...Dee TimmyHutchFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-42955870567671010492008-08-30T02:59:00.000-07:002008-08-30T02:59:00.000-07:00So, Cassandra, what do I mean talking about chirop...So, Cassandra, what do I mean talking about chiropteran features? First of all, these creatures have skeletal specializations to flight, and their descendants must inherit them. And you, as a creator of new animals derived from bats, must take them into account.<BR/>First of all, bats have joined chest bones. Ribs are movelessly attached to the column (except of flying foxes), and vertebrae are also fused (bats breath exclusively due to movements of diaphragm). Because of it we must say goodbye to galloping forms moving with the help of the spinal mobility (remember the cheetah, for example).<BR/>Next, the reducing of ulna limits the rotational movements of hand. It means: say goodbye to primate-like tree-climbers. Their reduced wing-hands may look and act like rake, being not able to complex actions.<BR/>And, of course, the position of hind limbs turned asides and not able to move in parasagittal plane strongly limits the set of possible directions of terrestrial bat evolution. They may be small tree-climbers (I mean, bark-creepers, but not branch-grippers), small rodent-like ground dwellers moving supporting on external surface of wrist, and so on. Possible, they may even jump like grasshoppers on turned back to front hind legs. But the movement like typical terrestrial mammals is prohibited for them by principles of evolution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-21258594722248805722008-08-29T13:37:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:37:00.000-07:00Good to see you again!! I wondered where you disap...Good to see you again!! I wondered where you disappeared to.Dee TimmyHutchFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-53136311379914721782008-08-29T13:32:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:32:00.000-07:00Yes, I'm.My baby is all right, and now we are half...Yes, I'm.<BR/>My baby is all right, and now we are half-year old!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-74607108090575662422008-08-29T13:28:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:28:00.000-07:00BTW, forgive me if I am wrong, but your last name ...BTW, forgive me if I am wrong, but your last name is so familiar. Is this Paul??? How've you been? How's the new baby?Dee TimmyHutchFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-17752855832211138902008-08-29T13:27:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:27:00.000-07:00They have leafs on their noses. The fingers are fu...They have leafs on their noses. The fingers are fused together, except for the thumbs. Other than that, they aren't meant to look much different.Dee TimmyHutchFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15186094514615567835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938713220377547711.post-88071246700665527652008-08-29T11:41:00.000-07:002008-08-29T11:41:00.000-07:00So, I think these ones look like usual animals. Bu...So, I think these ones look like usual animals. But, being the chiropterans by the origin, they must inherit and develop the features of their ancestors. But your bat ancestors look too ordinary. As fior me, I don't see the features of their ancestry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com