The ability to glide increases a colugo's access to scattered food resources in the rainforest, without increasing exposure to terrestrial or arboreal predators.
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Not enough is known of the skeleton of " Dermotherium " to assess whether the animal already possessed the gliding adaptations of living colugos.
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The mother colugo curls her tail and folds her patagium into a warm, secure, quasi-pouch in order to protect and transport her young.
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The others include the true flying squirrels of Eurasia and North America, colugos or flying lemurs of Southeast Asia, and the marsupial gliders in Australia.
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Among mammals, there are the marsupial gliding possums of Australia, the colugos of SE Asia, and the scaly-tailed flying squirrels of Africa.
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Some features of the teeth differentiate " Dermotherium " from both living colugo species, but other features are shared with only one of the two.
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The highest landing forces are experienced after short glides; longer glides lead to softer landings, due to the colugo's ability to brake its glide aerodynamically.
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Toothcombs can also be found in colugos and treeshrews, both close relatives of primates; however, the structures are different and these are considered to examples of convergent evolution.
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Although colugos also have a toothcomb, consisting of serrated edges on the tips of their incisors instead of finely spaced, elongated teeth, they do not have a sublingua.
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Among non-primates, the extinct " Chriacus " exhibits microscopic groves on its toothcomb, but the Philippine colugo ( " Cynocephalus volans " ) does not.
