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51. Lizard runs on water.
“We find basilisks of intermediate size obtain little support for their body weight by slapping the water surface; most of the support comes from stroking the foot downwards while expanding an air cavity under water. The lizard minimizes downwar...
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52. Water aids pollination: eelgrass
"Water celery has long narrow flat leaves that remain below the surface and absorb the oxygen and carbon dioxide they need from that dissolved in water around them. It also exploits water in its pollination techniques. Its flowers are either male ...
53. Tree accumulates, releases water.
"In the ancient histories of travellers in America. and also by Thevet in his Cosnographia, mention is made of a tree which attracted the clouds from the heavens, end converted them into rain in the dry deserts. These relations have been considere...
54. The Secret of Super-Fast Shark Swimming
Researchers have discovered what makes the shark almost impossible to outswim. By using an engineering imaging technique, researchers have discovered that as a shark’s tail swings from side to side, it creates twice as many jets of ...
55. Skin regulates water absorption: tree frog
"The ventral pelvic skin of the tree frog Hyla japonica expresses two kinds of arginine vasotocin (AVT)-stimulated aquaporins (AQP-h2 and AQP-h3), which affect the capacity of the frog's skin to absorb water. As such, it can be used as a mod...
56. Closeable gas exchange pores prevent water loss.
"Amazonian rainforest plants are isohydric. The drier the soil and the more effort it takes to pull water up the xylem from the soil to the leaves, the more stomata close in response to low soil moisture. This restricts plant water use in the dry ...
58. drinkingwatercooler
Drinking water cooler is essential to allow you clean and distilled drinking water cooler. Drinking water cooler are essentially important for the health and safety
59. Multiple organisms strip nutrients: forests
"Water supply authorities operate at the other extreme of the biodiversity scale preferring water catchments that are fully vegetated, whether by native forest, woodland or plantations. In such cases, the expectation is not that the catchment ecos...
60. Leaves given structural support: giant water-lily
"In still or slowly-moving waters there is one easy way to collect [light]: a plant can float its leaves upon the surface. No plant does this on a more spectacular scale or more aggressively than the giant Amazon water-lily. A leaf first appears o...
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