Name: Learning from the gecko's tail
Uploaded: 2009-06-11T01:00:00Z
Duration: 11 min 34 s
Description: Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all.

Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all.

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail

Learning from the gecko's tail

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