Skydiving salamanders!

Published: 17 May 2022
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Research from UC Berkeley and University of South Florida: High-speed video reveals a big difference in how salamanders react to falling. While ground-dwelling (nonarboreal) salamanders seem helpless during freefall in a vertical wind tunnel, arboreal salamanders maneuver confidently. This suggests that the tree-dwellers have adapted to routine falls, and perhaps use falling as a way to quickly move around in the canopies of the world’s tallest trees. The white spots are paper disks attached with water in order to track the motion of the head, body and tail.

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Video courtesy Christian Brown; edited by Roxanne Makasdjian

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