How Gecko Anatomy Helps even Large Lizards to Walk on Ceilings and Walls (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

How Gecko Anatomy Helps even Large Lizards to Walk on Ceilings and Walls

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Geckos range in body size from about 2 grams to over 250 grams, a difference in scale greater than 100-fold. It had been assumed that larger toe pads account for the ability of larger geckos to climb as well as smaller ones. But now a team of biologists and polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst show that increasing the surface area of gecko toe pads alone cannot explain this.

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