Editing Colugo (section)

=== Movement ===
Colugos are proficient gliders, and thought better adapted for flight than any other  gliding mammal.
They can travel as far as {{cvt|70|m}} from one tree to another without losing much altitude,<ref>{{cite book |last=Dawkins |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Dawkins |title=The Ancestor's Tale |publisher=Phoenix |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7538-1996-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ancestorstalepil0000dawk }}</ref> with a Malayan colugo (''Galeopterus variegatus'') individual having been observed  traveling about {{cvt|150|m}} in one glide.<ref name="pmid18252673">{{cite journal|last1=Byrnes |first1=G. |last2=Lim |first2=N.T. |last3=Spence |first3=A.J. |title=Take-off and landing kinetics of a free-ranging gliding mammal, the Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus). |journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society|Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences]] |year=2008 |volume=275 |issue=1638 |pages=1007–13 |pmid=18252673 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2007.1684 |pmc=2600906}}</ref>

Their ability to glide is possible because of a large membrane of skin that extends between their paired limbs. This gliding membrane, or [[Patagium#Gliding mammals|patagium]], runs from the shoulder blades to the fore paws, from the tip of the rear-most fingers to the tip of the toes, and from the hind legs to the tip of the tail.<ref name=EoM>{{cite book |editor-last=Macdonald |editor-first=D. |last=MacKinnon |first=Kathy |year=1984 |title=The Encyclopedia of Mammals |publisher=[[Infobase Publishing|Facts on File]] |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofma00mals_0/page/446 446–447] |isbn=978-0-87196-871-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofma00mals_0/page/446}}</ref> Colugos' gliding ability is aided by specialized muscles that control the tension and movement of the gliding membrane. The platysma myoides and platysma cervicale help adjust the patagium’s shape for better control during flight. The sternomastoideus and cleidomastoideus stabilize the head and neck, improving balance and maneuverability mid-air.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Diogo |first=Rui |date=2009 |title=The head and neck muscles of the Philippine colugo (Dermoptera: Cynocephalus volans), with a comparison to tree-shrews, primates, and other mammals |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.10666 |journal=Journal of Morphology |language=en |volume=270 |issue=1 |pages=14–51 |doi=10.1002/jmor.10666 |issn=1097-4687|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The spaces between the colugo's fingers and toes are webbed. As a result, colugos were once considered to be close relatives of [[bat]]s. Today, on account of genetic data, they are considered to be more closely related to [[primate]]s.<ref name="Janeckaetal2007">{{cite journal |year=2007 |title=Molecular and genomic data identify that their closest living relative non-colugo relatives are primates |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=318 |issue=5851 |pages=792–794 |bibcode=2007Sci...318..792J |doi=10.1126/science.1147555 |pmid=17975064 |author1-first=Jan E. |author1-last=Janecka |author2-first=Webb |author2-last=Miller |author3-first=Thomas H. |author3-last=Pringle |author4-first=Frank |author4-last=Wiens |author5-first=Annette |author5-last=Zitzmann |author6-first=Kristofer M. |author6-last=Helgen |author7-first=Mark S. |author7-last=Springer |author8-first=William J. |author8-last=Murphy |s2cid=12251814}}</ref>

[[File:Dermoptera - toothcomb 01.jpg|150px|thumbnail|right|Lower jaw (''[[Galeopterus]]'')]]
Colugos are unskilled climbers; they lack opposable thumbs.<ref name="Piotrowski 2015">{{cite web |last=Piotrowski |first=Jan |title=Zoologger: The clumsy tree-dweller transforms into a gliding ace |website=[[New Scientist]] |date=2015-05-15 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27539-zoologger-the-clumsy-tree-dweller-transforms-into-a-gliding-ace/ |access-date=2021-11-23 |archive-date=2021-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123163640/https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27539-zoologger-the-clumsy-tree-dweller-transforms-into-a-gliding-ace/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They progress up trees in a series of slow hops, gripping onto the bark with their small, sharp claws. They spend most of the day resting. At night, colugos spend most of their time up in the trees foraging, with gliding being used to either find another foraging tree or to find possible mates and protect territory.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spence |first1=Andrew J. |last2=Yeong |first2=Charlene |last3=Lim |first3=Norman T.-L. |last4=Byrnes |first4=Greg |date=2011-04-15 |title=Sex differences in the locomotor ecology of a gliding mammal, the Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) |url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/92/2/444/869618 |journal=[[Journal of Mammalogy]] |language=en |volume=92 |issue=2 |pages=444–451 |doi=10.1644/10-MAMM-A-048.1 |s2cid=84539846 |issn=0022-2372 |access-date=2018-12-05 |archive-date=2018-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205130744/https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/92/2/444/869618 |url-status=live }}</ref>