Geckos can break off their own tails.

壁虎可以折断自己的尾巴。

Today we can manufacture structures that mimic the hairs of a gecko's foot.

今天我们能够造出模仿壁虎脚趾毛发的结构。

Sometimes it's a picture of an animal, like a small gecko, sometimes it's words like 'I love you' or the name of a loved one.

有时是动物的图片，比如一只小壁虎，有时是像" 我你" 的名字那样的文字。

It's also home to many different animal species including rare geckos and the snow leopard.

它也是许多种野生物种的家园，包括稀有的蜥蜴和雪豹。

Now, geckos a lot of times have eyelids but they don't close completely.

很多时候壁虎都有眼睑，但是它们并没有完全闭上。

What is a characteristic feature of flowers pollinated by geckos?

壁虎授粉的花有什么特点？

This kind of leap-tailed gecko has red eyes, tiny horns, and speckled skin. All of these things help the gecko blend into the forest where it lives. This keeps it safe from predators.

这种叶尾宫长着红眼睛、小犄角和带斑点的皮肤。所有这些特征都帮助宫融入它所居住的森林环境，从而安全地躲避捕食者。

So our toes might not be nimble as a monkey's or as sticky as a gecko's, but without them, balancing on our feet would be tricky business.

所以我们的脚趾可能不会像猴子那样灵活者像壁虎那样粘，但是如果没有它们的话，让脚衡这件事情就会变得很困难了。

Dr Full and his colleagues have since identified similar behaviour in other animals with hooklike toes that are good at escaping pursuit: geckos, for example.

Full博士和同事后来又发现了其他具有类似特性的生物，它们同样具有钩状的脚趾并擅长逃离追杀，比如壁虎。

He has a rewarding job feeding the lizards at a local gecko breeder, but the night the paper was due, he was there till 10 p.m. cleaning cages.

他在当地一家壁虎饲养员那里有一份给蜥蜴喂食的有价值的工作，但是报纸到期的那天晚上，他在那里一直呆到晚上 10 点清理笼子。

This lizard is the aptly named dwarf gecko, and this one has laid a couple of eggs down here in this gall on the tree.

这种蜥蜴有一个合适的名字：侏儒壁虎，这一只在这棵树上的瘿里产下了几枚卵。

This ability to vocalize likely arose independently, multiple times, hundreds of millions of years ago-in frogs, mammals, geckos, and birds and crocodilians.

这种发声能力很可能在数亿年前独立且多次在青蛙、哺乳动物、壁虎、鸟类和鳄鱼身上产生。

Each pinhole projects a separate, sharp image onto the geckos retina.

每个针孔将一个单独的清晰图像投射到壁虎视网膜上。

Scientists would love to create synthetic adhesives based on the gecko trick.

科学家们很乐意根据壁虎的这一特点合成粘合剂。

The researchers also tested whether a gecko could latch onto the coating with its notoriously sticky footpads.

科学家还做了一项测验，看壁虎是否能够凭借它那著名的粘脚垫行走在上述涂层上。

The geckos can climb up walls. They can even hang upside down from a shiny surface.

使壁虎能爬上墙壁。壁虎甚至可以倒挂在光亮的表面上。

Even the famously adhesive feet of geckos usually can't get a grip.

就连壁虎有名的胶脚都粘不上去。

One square millimeter of a gecko's footpad has 14,000 hair-like structures called setae.

壁虎脚趾上一方毫米，有一万四千个毛发状结构叫刚毛。

Researchers created mathematical models that revealed that the default for gecko feet is non-sticky.

研究员因此构建了数学模型用于揭开壁虎脚趾常不具有粘性的这个秘密。

They work in the same way as the setae on the feet of geckos. They produce the same Van Der Waals forces.

它们的原理与壁虎脚上的刚毛相同。它们会产生同样的范德华力。