Among volant insects, behavior and time spent in flight varies greatly, both influencing probability of being swept off by the air stream. |
These were, in the Portuguese version, per pale argent and vert, two roses dimidiating as many fleurs-de-lis, in dexter canton a dove volant argent. |
The difficulty of keeping so great a mass of weighty metal in so volant an attitude, has been admirably overcome by the artist. |
What aspect of the ratite genome accounts for the larger size relative to volant birds? |
The positive allometry of flight speeds ensures that translational speeds of volant vertebrate predators substantially exceed those of their insectan prey. |
Based on the fact that young M. lucifugus are volant at three weeks of age, parturition on Brier Island must have occurred by 25 June. |