Sentence examples for adhesive toe pads from inspiring English sources

Geckos have adhesive toe pads that allow them to cling to almost any surface with ease.

Whatever is holding the frog to the surface, it is not its mucus.Many families of tree frog have evolved adhesive toe pads.

The feet have adaptations for the way of life, with webbing between the toes for swimming, broad adhesive toe pads for climbing, and keratinised tubercles on the hind feet for digging (frogs usually dig backwards into the soil).

Cretaceogekko was described as crown-group gekkotan based on it's advanced adhesive toe pads, but it has recently been inferred that specialized toe pad morphology has evolved (and been lost) several times across the gekkotan phylogeny [ 198].

Before every trial and after the very last trial, the feet of each gecko were scanned with a flat bed scanner so we could estimate the total adhesive area of the toe pads.

The adhesive interaction of gecko toe pads with a surface is mainly based on van der Waals forces, likely enhanced by capillary forces due to humidity.

In particular, the company hopes to derive new adhesives by studying the toe pads of the Tokay gecko, which allow the lizard to race across ceilings and glass windows, an ability that has inspired a rush of adhesives research over the last decade.

The first systematic investigations of the adhesive mechanisms and the interactions of gecko toe pads with a broad variety of substrates were made in the early 20th century.

Irrespective of the mechanism, effects of humidity on otherwise "dry adhesive" biological systems may not be limited to gecko toe pads.

Implications are potentially broad-reaching, both for biological hypotheses about the evolution of toe pads, as well as for bioengineers interested in biologically-inspired design of synthetic adhesives.

Tarsi and toes: dark brown to black, with toe pads dark brown ror gray.