January 30, 2025
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See a frog on the water with high-speed abdominal flop
Small frogs seem to exceed the surface of the water, but high-speed video shows its secret
Talia Weiss researchers observe a cricket frog, and allows unusual locomotives to skip the surface of the water.
If you finish flat stone on the pond, it is skipped in a series of smooth jumps. Inch cricket frogs also seems to get out of the surface of the water Challing physics grace. Talia Weiss, on the other hand, shot Virginia Tech Bioengineering students with a high-speed camera, he saw a very different image.
“If you look so fast if you look so fast, you can’t tell the difference,” says Weiss.
For a new study Journal of Experimental Biology, Weiss and his authors recorded frogs from the surface to 500 photograms above the surface and below 500 photograms and then the videos played as much slowly. Researchers found those who break the feet that break the surface, as older studies were described anecdotal, Frogs were making a bunch of belly fires-This part of the one because of a fraction and then throw up with each jump.
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Slow movements cricket frog belly flop.
Really rather than skitering across water Basilisk wasps However, the frogs were “podposed” while swimming from the water. Weiss says the legs can be very slow to sell the true surface.
“To jump to the water surface, you need to go back your legs and you must be willing to throw again when you approach the water everywhere,” he explained. “And these (frogs) do not prepare to land at all; they just flop in the stomach. They don’t get enough legs quickly to jump again” from the surface itself.
“The quick animal movements can be really misleading,” and the new cameraware shows the ones who are making frogs, Jasmine Nirody, at the University of Chicago, did not participate. By carefully examining such movements, “we can think of how we can use (frog) strategy in different bioinspired robots,” he added. “We now know what to search.”
