Sticky berries adhere with strength and ease
11. Special tongue captures soft prey: long-beaked echidna
"Zaglossus has a specialized groove on the distal third of the tongue that has three rows of sharp spines that assist in worm capture. In both Tachyglossus and Zaglossus prey are audibly ground between a keratinous pad at the base of the tough and...
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Email12. Eggs adhere in seawater: cuttlefish
"The eggs of [cuttlefish] have sticky surfaces that enable them to adhere to cavities in the deeps of the sea." (Yahya 2002:112)
13. White blood cells adhere closely: mammals
"Dr. Shasha Klibanov, Dr. Jonathan Lindner, and graduate student Jack Rychack of the University of Virginia are studying how leukocytes bind at high speeds to areas of infection. Physicians want to use microbubbles in combination with ultrasound t...
14. Chitin layers produce gold and silver colors: jewel scarab
"A team of researchers at the University of Costa Rica has found that the beetles' metallic appearance is created by the unique structural arrangements of many dozens of layers of exo-skeletal chitin in the elytron, a hardened forewing th...
15. Troglobite feet stick to moist surfaces.
"Many troglobites possess extraordinarily long legs (and lots of them) with spiky feet adapted for getting over rocky terrain and sticking to moist surfaces." (Krajick 2007:139)
16. Skin reduces drag: shark
While a shark’s coarse shape is famously hydrodynamic, shark skin is anything but smooth. The very small individual scales of shark skin, called dermal denticles ("little skin teeth"), are ribbed with longitudinal grooves which result in ...
17. Toe pads adhere and clean themselves: White's tree frog
"White’s tree frogs have tiny hexagonal patterns on their feet, which allow some parts of the pad to remain in contact with the surface and create friction, whilst the channels between allow the mucus to spread throughout the pad. This...
18. Fisher & Paykel : E522BLX
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19. Blood carries oxygen in varied conditions: human
"Nature has evolved in ways that, at the molecular scale, make inventive and elegant uses of chemistry. To take an example more or less at random, the use of allosteric effects by haemoglobin to fine-tune the protein's affinity for oxygen in diffe...
20. Jellyfish nematocysts adhere.
“Nematocysts are diverse in structure and interactions with target tissues (Mariscal, 1974; Williamson et al., 1996). The nematocyst itself consists of an intracellular capsule containing a tightly coiled and folded tubule. Upon receipt of appro...
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