Study on Tail Dropping

[Seahorse]

Hey guys,
I was over at my parent's house last weekend and my Mom showed me an article in the Smithsonian Magazine. There's not much too it, but it's interesting so I thought I'd post it here. They think that they can study leopard geckos dropping tails to possibly help people with spinal cord injuries in the future.

Check it out.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Wild-Things-Nov09.html?c=y&page=5

 

[vctkiller]

Interesting

 

[BioWorkZ]

Cool stuff. Not only are they great pets, but they can help improve the quality of life for spinal injury patients.

 

[MiamiLeos]

woa that is nuts. i would have never made that connection in a million years. yay for leos!!!

 

[Seahorse]

I thought it was pretty cool too. Who would've thought that leos can help with spinal cord injury research.

 

[SFgeckos]

I read the paper when it was published in Sept- very interesting research!

"Flip, flop and fly: modulated motor control and highly variable movement patterns of autotomized gecko tails." Higham, Sept 2009

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...med_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=1

Jon