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Acrobatic Geckos Steer with Their Tails Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Robert Full of the University of California at Berkeley, and colleagues used high speed cameras to study geckos climbing slippery walls. When they slowed the footage down they saw that, if one foot slipped as the gecko stepped on the surface, they used their tails as a fifth leg to compensate. Under normal circumstances, the geckos held their tails a few millimeters off the wall. (source: newscientist.com)
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