2017 - the department at a glance
Images from high speed video taken at 500 frames per second of the aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, catching a small goldfish by sucking it in. Numbers in each frame represent time in milliseconds from initial frame. Although the frog’s fingers are flared to prevent the fish from escaping, they never actually touch the fish, showing that the frog is capable of generating suction fast enough to catch elusive prey. From research done as an extension of a project begun by Ed Fernandez and Benjamin Schwartz in Professor Cundall’s herpetology course in 2012 and published in the Journal of Morphology in 2017. |
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