Gliding
The lizards are well known for their 'display structures' and ability to glide long distances using their wing-like, patagial membranes supported by elongated thoracic ribs to generate lift forces.
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Famous quotes containing the word gliding:
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out, I wanderd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Lookd up in perfect silence at the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“I stand on a bridge of one span
and see this calm act, this gathering up
of life, of spring water
and the Muse gliding ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)