Here, geckos and skinks dart through the foliage, and pitcher plants dangle among moss-covered palms.

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Geckos' feet are covered with microscopic hair-like projections that stick electrostatically to anything they touch.

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This effect allows geckos to walk on the ceiling, using tiny hairs on the soles of their feet.

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Dr Molfino's second unusual approach involves flat surfaces that grasp the fabric they are manipulating much as geckos stick to ceilings.

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The designer, Edie Freedman, noticed that UNIX programs had these really weird names like sed and awk, which got her thinking of animals with odd names, like yaks, llamas and geckos.

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The regime, says Prof Juergens, also drives wider benefits, with the insects becoming a valuable food resource for a whole range of other animals such as geckos, moles, aardvarks, jackals, spiders, ants and the like.

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Full discovered that geckos are able to race up vertical plains so quickly because of millions of tiny hairs containing billions of even tinier split ends on the pads of their feet, which are able to almost instantaneously stick and unstick themselves to surfaces.

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