Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
Tilbury House Publishers Catching AIR Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals SNEED B COLLARD III
HIGH IN A PINE TREE in Southeast Asia A Draco lizard searches for ants to eat As it swivels its head it stops 4
and stares into the eyes of a deadly paradise tree snake The snake lunges The Draco leaps out into space With the ground a hundred feet below death seems certain But the lizard doesn’t fall Instead it does something almost no other animal in the world can do It spreads its ribs and 5
