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Air sacs in primates
Topic Started: Oct 6 2010, 07:41 AM (2,306 Views)
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http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/10/mammal_pockets_sacs_pt_i.php

So, any ideas for volant future apes?
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Chimp Blimp perhaps?
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The airsacs could spread to other parts of the body to lighten the body for easier arboreal living. Maybe even flight could develop in some lines of arboreal monkeys with airsacs in most of the body.

Other than flying primates, some could develop frigatebird-like balloon pouches even bigger in proportion to the body than simiangs. They could produce many different vocalizations and have frog-like day songs.
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just some vocal adaptations,and perhaps something mimical
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After whales and the "bloop" sound.
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Louder then them. The call of one in Borneo can be heard in New Guinea.
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The "bloop" noise is likely to be Cthulu. and it was heard on opposite sides of the Pacific.
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I thought it was the world's biggest methane bubble.
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It was this thing. Its big enough.

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