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Rate-dependent adhesion together with limb collaborations facilitate grasshoppers reliable attachment under highly dynamic conditions

Dynamic attachment is indispensable for animals to cope with unexpected disturbances. Minor attention has been paid to the dynamic performance of insects’ adhesive pads. Through experiments pulling whole grasshoppers off a glass rod at varying speeds, surprising findings emerged. The feet did not al...

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Autores principales: Song, Yi, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Aihong, Wu, Huaping, Gorb, Stanislav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10641511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37965153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108264