Secretos Que Se Deslizan
Enviado por rodramirezzz • 11 de Noviembre de 2013 • 370 Palabras (2 Páginas) • 256 Visitas
SLITHERING SECRETS:
No legs? No problem, snakes travel perfectly on the ground. But just not exactly as the way we have thought. David Hu, mechanical engineer of Georgia technologic said that the scales on their belly and the way that they raise their body are the key for the snake’s locomotion.
Scientist believed that snakes used these slides to remove splinters and stones, but they got puzzled by the way they could slide on flat surfaces. Hu studied their movements and found the answer in the scales of their stomach which overlap like a pack of spread cards. These scales get clogged in certain features of the plain, such as cracks and fissures, even the tiny ones, and increase the rub which is used by snakes to be propelled forward. In order to go faster, they move their weight raising lightly the parts of their body, just the way we do. “We do not drag our legs when we run or walk”, said.
Their findings may lead to better medical procedures such as colonoscopies. Up to now, they are simply another probe that snakes can travel efficiently.
SLITHERING SECRETS:
No legs? No problem, snakes travel perfectly on the ground. But just not exactly as the way we have thought. David Hu, mechanical engineer of Georgia technologic said that the scales on their belly and the way that they raise their body are the key for the snake’s locomotion.
Scientist believed that snakes used these slides to remove splinters and stones, but they got puzzled by the way they could slide on flat surfaces. Hu studied their movements and found the answer in the scales of their stomach which overlap like a pack of spread cards. These scales get clogged in certain features of the plain, such as cracks and fissures, even the tiny ones, and increase the rub which is used by snakes to be propelled forward. In order to go faster, they move their weight raising lightly the parts of their body, just the way we do. “We do not drag our legs when we run or walk”, said.
Their findings may lead to better medical procedures such as colonoscopies. Up to now, they are simply another probe that snakes can travel efficiently.
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