Contact behaviour of tarsal hairs under shear. Tarsal hair fields from the 3rd and 4th tarsomere of severed legs were brought into contact with a smooth glass surface. With help of a motorised stage the surface was moved in the pulling and pushing direction under varying preloads. The buckling and reorientation of the hairs is visible.
Endlein T, Federle W
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641605/bin/pone.0141269.s001.mov">S1 Video</a> from <cite style="font-style:normal">Endlein T, Federle W (2015). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641605">On Heels and Toes: How Ants Climb with Adhesive Pads and Tarsal Friction Hair Arrays</a>". <i>PLOS ONE</i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141269">10.1371/journal.pone.0141269</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID" class="extiw" title="w:PMID">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26559941">26559941</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central" class="extiw" title="w:PubMed Central">PMC</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641605">4641605</a>.</cite>