colugos

Colugos glidebetween trees using their patagium, or flaps of skin between their front and hind legs and extending to the tail and the neck.

鼯猴利用它们的翼膜在树之间滑翔，该翼膜是它们前后肢之间并一直延伸到尾部和颈部的片状悬垂物。

colugos glide between trees using their patagium, or flaps of skin between their front and hind legs and extending to the tail and the neck.

鼯猴利用它们的翼膜在树之间滑翔，该翼膜是它们前后肢之间并一直延伸到尾部和颈部的片状悬垂物。

The scientists placed accelerometers onto the backs of six compliant colugos.

科学家在六只飞鼯猴背上安装了加速度计。

colugos can sail 10 times faster than they can tightrope through the canopy. which leaves more time to snack.

因为滑行比在树丛中飞檐走壁要快上10倍，这也让它们有更多的时间睡觉。

colugos resemble marsupials in that their young are born early in embryonic development.

像有袋动物一样，猫猴的宝宝在胚胎发育早期就出生。

the affinities of the tree shrews and the colugos, to each other and to the rest of the mammals, are subject to dispute and uncertainty.

树鼩和猫猴之间、以及这两者与其它哺乳动物之间紧密的联系成了争论的焦点，而且尚无定论。

colugos and tree shrews have unusual reproductive systems, but in very different directions.

猫猴和树鼩都具有不同一般的繁殖体系，但是具体的方法也不一样。

colugos are even webbed between their toes.

鼯猴的趾间甚至都有膜。

So researchers tested that idea using colugos-mammals from Southeast Asia that turn into giant skin sails when they stretch out their legs.

因此研究人员用飞鼯猴——一种来自东南亚的哺乳动物，当它们滑行时会伸展出四肢，变成一张巨大的翼膜。

That's because colugos prepare for a launch by climbing higher up the tree. And climbing's a lot more strenuous than walking.

这是因为飞鼯猴在准备滑行之前要爬上高高的树，并且爬行比行走更耗体力。