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71. Polymers provide adhesion, protection: microbes
"Microalgae and bacteria living in aquatic ecosystems commonly secrete extracellular polymeric substances…A large proportion (40–95%) of this polymeric material is exopolysaccharide (EPS), but it may also include proteins, nucleic aci...
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72. Feather parts reattach: birds
"A central shaft carries on either side a hundred or so filaments; each filament is similarly fringed with about a hundred smaller filaments or barbules. In downy feathers, this structure produces a soft, air-trapping fluffiness and, therefore, su...
73. Wings work in unison: insects
"[I]n those insects with two pairs of fully operative wings, both are commonly linked together so that they work in unison. Linking devices vary widely. In butterflies and some moths, the upper and lower wings perform as one because of an overlapp...
74. Tendrils stick to various surfaces: Virginia creeper
"The tendrils of Virginia creeper end in small adhesive pads which stick firmly to stone or bark." (Attenborough 1995:162)
75. Mouthparts manipulate food: insects
"Behind the mandibles is another pair of jaw-like structures, the maxillae. These may be simple in shape but often they bear soft lip-like appendages, and projections like tiny antennae, called palps. These bear many sensilla…sensitive cell...
76. Hooked beak snags flowers: flowerpiercer
"It is called, accurately enough, a flower-piercer. The upper half of its beak is notched along its edge and hooked at the end. The lower half is rather shorter and very sharply pointed. The bird lands on or beside a tubular flower and snags it wi...
77. Pelvic fins create suction.
The pelvic fins of the Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis) form a suction disc on its belly to hold onto rocks in fast tidal currents. (Newport Aquarium sign) (XXXSR: if "yes," find better source.)
78. Skin grows over fertilized eggs: surinam toad
"The Pipa toad is one of the most aquatic of the anurans, spending all its life in water. It is a grotesque creature with a flattened body and a squashed-looking head. When they mate, the male grasps the female with his arms as most water-breeding...
79. Multiple component glue aids underwater adhesion: barnacle
"Barnacles have the capability for tenacious underwater adhesion to the surfaces by a proteinaceous cement substance. Three major proteins had been identified in a previous study and this study adds a fourth. It is suggested that each cement prote...
80. Poisonous tooth shoots into prey: cone snail
"Cone snails use an extensile, tubular proboscis as a conduit to deliver a potent cocktail of bioactive venom peptides into their prey. Previous studies have focused mainly on understanding the venom's role in prey capture but successful pre...
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