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Frog tongue acts as muscle-powered adhesive tape

Frogs are well known to capture fast-moving prey by flicking their sticky tongues out of the mouth. This tongue projection behaviour happens extremely fast which makes frog tongues a biological high-speed adhesive system. The processes at the interface between tongue and prey, and thus the mechanism...

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Autores principales: Kleinteich, Thomas, Gorb, Stanislav N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26473054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150333