Gecko toes are padded with flexible ridges.

壁虎的脚趾有易弯曲的凸起。

The experiment into the effect of weightlessness on reptiles' sexual reproduction is still continuing.

研究失重状态对壁虎性繁殖能力影响的实验仍在继续。

Geckos can break off their own tails.

壁虎可以折断自己的尾巴。

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

科学家们很乐壁虎的这一特点合成粘合剂。

Sam keeps lots of crickets in boxes. He feeds them to his geckos.

萨姆在盒子里放了很多蟋蟀。他将这些蟋蟀喂给他的壁虎。

He believes that Synthetic Gecko will be quick and easy to make.

他相信“人造壁虎”材料能迅速且容易地制造。

In fact, the whole gecko could dangle from a single one of its toes.

壁虎甚至可以整个吊在一脚趾。

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去。

But some aphids, katydids, lizards, geckos, and snakes only ever reproduce via parthenogenesis.

而有些蚜虫、蝈蝈、蜥蜴、壁虎、蛇等只进行孤雌生殖。

This is George, the giant new Caledonia Gecko.

这是乔治，巨大的新喀里多尼亚壁虎。

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。

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

壁虎脚趾一平方毫米，有一万四千个毛发状结构叫刚毛。

Or perhaps, Spider Man will one day be Gecko Man.

或者，蜘蛛人有一天将变成壁虎人。

What is a characteristic feature of flowers pollinated by geckos?

壁虎授粉的花有什么特点？

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。

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。

Meanwhile, nocturnal geckos have pupils that shrink into slits studded with pinholes in higher light conditions.

与此同时，夜间活动的壁虎在较高的光照条件下瞳孔会收缩成布满针孔的狭缝。

Geckos can also easily loosen their grip and break into a dash, which has flummoxed physicists.

壁虎也能轻易松懈自己的抓力然后突然掉下，这就使很多物理学家们困惑不解。

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

研究人员因此构建了数学模型用于揭开壁虎脚趾平常不具有粘性的这个秘密。

It is a plastic called " Synthetic Gecko" .

这是一种名为“人造壁虎”的塑料。