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The huge numbers of spatulae on its setae provide a gecko, shown in Figure 10.8, with a large total surface area for sticking to a surface.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Geckos’ toes are covered with hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs known as setae, with each seta, in turn, branching into hundreds of tiny, flat, triangular tips called spatulae.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Alex Greaney and Congcong Hu at Oregon State University described how geckos can achieve this by changing the angle between their spatulae and the surface.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Although dispersion forces are very weak, the total attraction over millions of spatulae is large enough to support many times the gecko’s weight.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The spatulae are sometimes very simply and rudely decorated.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood