Toad eggs adhere in and out of wate
21. Trapped air between cell layers creates buoyancy and keeps water out of cell tissue.
The term aerenchyma is frequently applied to any loose porous tissue found in plants, e.g. lenticels, although it primarily refers to the spongy tissue occurring mainly in the stems of many aquatic or marsh plants. The tissue is formed by the phel...
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22. Eggs stick to waxy surface: asparagus beetle
"Plant surfaces covered with crystalline epicuticular waxes are known to be anti-adhesive, hardly wettable and preventing insect attachment. But there are insects that are capable of gluing their eggs to these surfaces by...
23. 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...
24. Threads adhere underwater: sea cucumber
"Patrick Flammang of the University of Mons, Belgium, is studying the sea cucumber. The sea cucumber, a relative of the starfish, protects itself from predators by ejecting, in a matter of seconds, fine, sticky threads that entangle an attacker an...
25. Soil-coated eggs may resist fire.
"Species subjected to periodic catastrophes may persist locally through resistance or recolonization. I studied the fate of a population of the walking-stick Timema cristinae (Phasmato-dea, Timemidae) after a natural fire in the chaparral of the S...
26. Jaws swallow eggs whole: egg-eating snakes
"The members of another genus of snake, Dasypeltis, of quite a different lineage (colubrids rather than boids) eat only eggs, which they swallow whole and break in their esophagi. The eggs, like python prey, exceed the snakes' cross sections. Eggs...
27. Jet propulsion as transportation mechanism: salp
"Also called thaliaceans, salps are small free-swimming marine creatures with gelatinous, semitransparent bodies that move around by means of jet propulsion, drawing in water through an aperture at one end of the body, and then forcing it out thro...
28. Secretion attaches eggs: saturniid gum moth
"Biochemical and electrophoretic screening of 29 adhesive secretions from Australian insects identified six types that appeared to consist largely of protein. Most were involved in terrestrial egg attachment...The strongest (1–2 MPa) was an ...
29. Examples of biomimicry applications in various South African bird species.
SOME EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE BIOMIMICRY APPLICATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS.Source: 'Birds - The Inside Story: Exploring birds and their behaviour in southern Africa'. Struik Publishers. 2005, Cape Town, South Africa.Application 1: Aerodynamics &ndas...
30. 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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