Surface contact of tarsal hairs under high magnification. Tarsal hair fields of severed legs were manually brought into contact with a transparent glass surface and were slowly moved up and down. The side contact of the hairs and small fluid droplets after detachment are 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.s002.avi">S2 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>