Dinosaurs might have used feathers on forelimbs and tails to flush and pursue their prey

Read more at In this video: This movie illustrates three different ways in which dinosaurs with proto-wings might have flushed their prey by visual displays to subsequently pursue them. First, the grasshopper jumps/flies away in response to expanding Robotperyx’s forelimbs with protowings. Second, the grasshopper jumps/flies away in response to the folding of forelimbs with protowings. Third, the grasshopper escapes in response to upward movements of the tail. Credit: Movie by Jinseok Park, Minyoung Son, Jeongyeol Park, SangYun Bang, Jungmoon Ha, Hyungpil Moon, Yuong‑Nam Lee, Sang‑im Lee, Piotr G. Jablonski. Fragments of supplementary movie to the paper “Escape behaviors in prey and the evolution of pennaceous plumage in dinosaurs“ by the above Authors in Scientific Reports: DOI: Subscribe: Join Science X chann
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