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eyes registered only a blurry spot of color resting on my thigh. After a second, I locked eyes with a tinny gecko that was making its way across the beach via my leg. Its little body was frozen in place, out of terror or curiosity or possibly both. I became as still as the gecko, holding my breath as to not disturb the tiny silent connection between us. As I looked at the gecko and the gecko looked at me, time stretched and warped beyond the few seconds the encounter actually lasted, extending the

are developing an innovative "gecko gripper" system that will allow robots to perform maintenance tasks in outer space. They will inspect and repair the space station's exterior, as well as conduct a wide range of space activities in Earth orbit. Recently, the American space agency has also released a video describing the gecko space robot concept. According to Aaron Parness, JPL engineer, this kind of versatile robots will allow the space agency to have its

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forms, processes, systems, and strategies to solve human problems.2 Throughout human history, man has been adapting ideas from nature around him to solve his problems There are many examples of biomimicry, but let us focus on the human eye and the gecko

production at other enterprises, we do not have the resources to implement it here at Gecko. We must remember that Gecko Enterprises is a small, family owned business. Along with managing over 100 employees, we do not possess the ability to implement this model while satisfying the union’s requested pay raise. Furthermore, with increasing production costs and lowered productivity, we must do what is best for Gecko Enterprises. To readjust the managerial responsibilities to include serving all 100

Since the completion of the human genome sequencing project in 2003 there has been an emphasis on determining what role the ~3.3 billion nucleotides, constituting the human genome, play. (1) How scientists have defined function, regarding the genome, has changed over the years. There has been debate on how function of the genome is defined between different fields. The inconsistencies in definitions, analyses and new discoveries into novel functional elements of DNA have led to many in the scientific

A gecko’s grip- Geckos are reptiles that can walk on walls and ceilings. Their toes are sticky which help them climb. They have miniscule projections called setae and these then branch into fine tips called spatulas. These spatulas are thin hair like fibers that are found in bunched up in certain areas of their feet. Analysts in California trust that the reptile's "sticky" toes can help in producing a dry and self-cleaning adhesive. (Lewis, 2013) (Kishor Kalauni, 2014) When the spatulas come in contact

jaw and the braincase. Anthony Herrel, Peter Aerts and Frits De Vree conducted an investigation at the University of Antwerp in Belgium on cranial kinesis. The purpose of their study was to examine the functional implications of cranial kinesis in geckos. Most vertebrates have some form of a kinetic skull. Versley describes three types of cranial kinesis; streptostyly, the movement of the quadrate; metakinesis, a movement of the braincase; mesokinesis, a movement of the plato-maxillary. Other research

the spine. While predictable central pattern generators are not uncommon in nature, lizard species like the Tokay gecko (gekko gecko) have incorporated erratic and complicated movements into their autotomized tail displays (Hingham & Russell, 2009). This unpredictable behavior is meant to appear novel and thus noticeable to the predator, preventing it from pursuing the rest of the gecko body. The mechanism of tail loss involves the coordination of many tissues in the tail to prevent serious damage

Selection would strongly favor prey that is able to identify predators and adjust antipredator responses according to the level of danger a predator poses, since responding to predators potentially involve costs (e.g. loss of time for foraging or mating). When certain predators have been absent from a prey’s habitat for an extended period of time, antipredator behaviors that are very costly may be lost, resulting in prey only responding to syntopic predators. Conversely, when antipredator behaviors