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Importance of Body Stance in Fog Droplet Collection by the Namib Desert Beetle

The fog-basking behavior of the Onymacris unguicularis, a beetle species living in the coastal regions of the Namibian desert, has recently caught the attention of the engineering community, as suggesting a viable biomimetic approach to address the problem of harvesting water in arid regions of the...

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Autores principales: Chakrabarti, Unmeelan, Paoli, Roberto, Chatterjee, Souvick, Megaridis, Constantine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31466234
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics4030059