Scientist working in Cambodian jungle observes water running geckos.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:23 pm
"Co-author Ardian Jusufi, a biophysicist at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, was working in the jungles of Cambodia when he noticed that the geckos there could skid across puddles to escape predators."
"Nirody and her colleagues collected some Asian house geckos and set up an experiment in the lab. They built a long water tank, attached a plank across the top, and varied the water surface tension by adding soap. Then they placed the geckos on the plank and startled them by touching their tails. They shot high-speed video of the geckos darting across the water's surface and studied it closely."
""Our new understanding of gecko locomotion could inspire design," says Nirody, who suggests the geckos' multimodal locomotive strategy could lead to rapid swimming robots for search and rescue in flooded areas."
0.53 for gecko swimming in the wild footage.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 112918.php
I know, riveting stuff.
"Nirody and her colleagues collected some Asian house geckos and set up an experiment in the lab. They built a long water tank, attached a plank across the top, and varied the water surface tension by adding soap. Then they placed the geckos on the plank and startled them by touching their tails. They shot high-speed video of the geckos darting across the water's surface and studied it closely."
""Our new understanding of gecko locomotion could inspire design," says Nirody, who suggests the geckos' multimodal locomotive strategy could lead to rapid swimming robots for search and rescue in flooded areas."
0.53 for gecko swimming in the wild footage.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 112918.php
I know, riveting stuff.