Sentence examples for adapted for flying from inspiring English sources

The clavicle is present generally in those placental mammals (primates, many rodents and marsupials, and others) that have prehensile (i.e., capable of grasping) forelimbs or whose forelimbs are adapted for flying (e.g., bats).

A key premise in Owen's argument is that adaptation to their environments cannot fully explain the form of the vertebrate limb: though they are finely adapted for flying, swimming, digging, or grasping, each is formed by modifying a basic design common to all.

In contrast, this protocol has had little or no success when adapted for flies [18], [19].

No one can say how the bird got here, but this species is adapted for long-distance flying.

They were wondrously adapted for mating after flying up in the air with virgin queens, but even if they managed to accomplish this it would do nothing for the Trailhead Colony.

Never before had anyone in the U.S. Department of Defense flown in NVGs and the Task Force quickly adapted the NVGs for flying and by Brown's own words "a warrant officer figured out we could cut them apart and mount them to our helmets and increase our efficiency and safety by a huge margin.

Flies adapted for 2 days to a rich 10S10Y diet did not wake up after the A/R stress.

Rudolph's nose is red because it is richly supplied with red blood cells, comprises a highly dense microcirculation, and is anatomically and physiologically adapted for reindeer to carry out their flying duties for Santa Claus.

Birds arose as warm-blooded, arboreal, flying creatures with forelimbs adapted for flight and hind limbs for perching.

Flies were adapted for 2 days to a 10S10Y diet at 18°C and exposed to a 3.5 h A/R stress.

In all subsequent experiments flies were adapted for 2 days to different diets, A/R stressed and switched to a 10S10Y diet.