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Like most other saucebacks, jewel-eyed saucebacks are obligate bipeds with pillar-erect legs. However, while they walk and run like other saucebacks, they are also capable of other forms of locomotion and locomotion-tangent movement.

The most universal of these is the flutter jump, where they appear to run in midair while their flight feathers flap furiously, which slows their fall, adjusts their trajectory, and allows them to land directly into a sprint. Similar to the flutter jump is a form of wing-assisted incline running where the furious left-right flapping of the leg feathers creates a pushing force which allows smaller species to climb steep slopes without tumbling down.

The most universal of these is the flutter jump, where they appear to run in midair while their flight feathers flap furiously, which slows their fall, adjusts their trajectory, and allows them to land directly into a sprint. The motion, and its function, can be somewhat likened to alternating wing beats. Similar to the flutter jump is a form of wing-assisted incline running where the furious left-right flapping of the leg feathers creates a pushing force which allows smaller species to climb steep slopes without tumbling down.

Flightless species are usually capable of gliding at some stage of their life. As implied by the presence of specifically flightless species, some species can fly as well; the legs of the [[interbiat]] and its descendants are long and feathered like a bird's wings, and they flap them to fly.

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 Like most other saucebacks, jewel-eyed saucebacks are obligate bipeds with pillar-erect legs. However, while they walk and run like other saucebacks, they are also capable of other forms of locomotion and locomotion-tangent movement.
-The most universal of these is the flutter jump, where they appear to run in midair while their flight feathers flap furiously, which slows their fall, adjusts their trajectory, and allows them to land directly into a sprint. Similar to the flutter jump is a form of wing-assisted incline running where the furious left-right flapping of the leg feathers creates a pushing force which allows smaller species to climb steep slopes without tumbling down.
+The most universal of these is the flutter jump, where they appear to run in midair while their flight feathers flap furiously, which slows their fall, adjusts their trajectory, and allows them to land directly into a sprint. The motion, and its function, can be somewhat likened to alternating wing beats. Similar to the flutter jump is a form of wing-assisted incline running where the furious left-right flapping of the leg feathers creates a pushing force which allows smaller species to climb steep slopes without tumbling down.
 Flightless species are usually capable of gliding at some stage of their life. As implied by the presence of specifically flightless species, some species can fly as well; the legs of the [[interbiat]] and its descendants are long and feathered like a bird's wings, and they flap them to fly.

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