Exempel på flightless

• This paper considers the role of air currents as dispersal vehicles of these flightless arachnids.

• Since these insects are brachypterous and flightless, the significance of these variations are obscure.

• Neither club nor the more crumpled forms of curly can fly, though the flightless forms can ' skip ' several centimetres at a time.

• They include giant tortoises, of which there are some 80,000, and apparently it is the last breeding place of the flightless rail.

• The duck are flightless during this season which is thus the period of danger.

• The ratites are large flightless birds, and include ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, kiwis and emus.

• The great spotted kiwi, as a member of the ratites, is flightless.

• Originally thought to be one of the earliest members of flightless birds, alvarezsaurids have recently been regarded as more basal theropods.

• Bristle-thighed curlews are unique among shorebirds in that they are flightless during molt.

• In flightless birds, however, its shape may be slightly different, or it might be absent entirely.

• Being flightless makes recolonisation of burnt areas more difficult for these beetles.

• A dragon starts as a flightless "hatchling", in an epic quest they grow up to an "adult dragon" able to fly.

• Some flightless varieties of island birds are closely related to flying varieties, implying flight is a significant biological cost.

• Ratites, all of whom are flightless, lack a strong keel.

• Having no enemies, and taking its food primarily through diving along the food-rich shorelines, the bird eventually became flightless.