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Sucker-Footed Bats uses Sweat instead of suction to hang upright.
Topic Started: Dec 22 2009, 08:14 PM (491 Views)
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091217-sucker-footed-bat-suction-madagascar.html

What interests me the most is that if sweat can be used as a suction method, then practically all mammal species could evolve wall-crawling locomotion in the future. (This is just a theory)
Edited by TheCoon, Dec 22 2009, 08:14 PM.
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Are you plausible?

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...practically all mammal species could evolve wall-crawling locomotion in the future.


Provided they're small enough, I agree with you. I'm not sure if this could work at very large scales. For one thing, that would take a lot of suction force to hold up something as big as a medium-sized dog, and where could it find a large surface smooth enough for suction to even be of value.

Maybe for purposes of traction. Hmm...
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Probably some future city rats might develop the same technique for wall-crawling in the buildings?
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or, you know, they could use the stairs...
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