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Category: robot
Stanford researchers develop climbing robot that can scale sheer surfaces like glass.
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Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: robot
Stanford researchers develop climbing robot that can scale sheer surfaces like glass.
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Category: gecko
Fascinating BBC footage of geckos coaxing leafhoppers to feed them honeydew. The lizards tap their feet or bob their heads, and the insect dutifully tosses them a bead of delicious tree sap. This definitely qualifies as bizarre zoology....
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Category: bird
In honor of St. Paddy's Day, a tribute to being green.Northland Green Gecko, naultinus grayiiGreen Lynx Spider, peucetia viridansGreen Hermit Hummingbird, phaethornis guy (we think)Green Grasshopper, campylacantha olivacea...
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