{"id":205132,"date":"2025-02-01T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/wandering-salamanders-stick-to-tree-canopies-thanks-to-their-blood-powered-toes"},"modified":"2025-02-01T01:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:23:37","slug":"wandering-salamanders-stick-to-tree-canopies-thanks-to-their-blood-powered-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/wandering-salamanders-stick-to-tree-canopies-thanks-to-their-blood-powered-toes","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Salamanders Stick to Tree Canopies Thanks to Their Blood-Powered Toes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wandering-salamanders-stick-to-tree-canopies-thanks-to-their-blood-powered-toes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wandering salamanders are known for gliding high through the canopies of coastal redwood forests, but how the small amphibians stick their landing and take-off with ease remains something of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jmor.70026\" target=\"_blank\">new study in the Journal of Morphology<\/a> reveals the answer may have a lot to do with a surprising mechanism: blood-powered toes. The Washington State University-led research team discovered that wandering salamanders (<em><i>Aneides vagrans<\/i><\/em>) can rapidly fill, trap and drain the blood in their toe tips to optimize attachment, detachment and general locomotion through their arboreal environment.<\/p>\n<p>The research not only uncovers a previously unknown physiological mechanism in salamanders but also has implications for bioinspired designed. Insights into salamander toe mechanics could ultimately inform the development of adhesives, prosthetics, and even robotic appendages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering salamanders are known for gliding high through the canopies of coastal redwood forests, but how the small amphibians stick their landing and take-off with ease remains something of a mystery. A new study in the Journal of Morphology reveals the answer may have a lot to do with a surprising mechanism: blood-powered toes. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}