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  • No reason it wouldn’t be. Ground up vs tree down is more about if controlling a jump or a fall comes before the gliding.

    Personally I see the researchers who place bat locomotion as most analogous to how pterosaurs would’ve moved, and then further reason that our evidence points more towards bats being tree down (but we’re STILL not sure on that one because everything that flys evolves too fuckin fast) and that would also mean pterosaurs are PROBABLY also a tree down evolutionary path.

    Of course, I’m not a scientist with any sort of official opinions, but I also feel like your babies surviving a fall from a canopy by gliding would have more evolutionary weight and result in the super fast adaptation towards flight than controlling jumps.