Sentences with phrase «toe pads»

Many species have specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease.

The feet are small and round, with toe pads black.

Also avoid walking on hot pavement — this can burn your dog's sensitive toe pads.

They often develop chronic arthritis and as the front toe pads shrink, chronic bone infections are common.

When the footpad form of EGC has just begun, pain and a loss of toe pad pigment can be the only signs.

But now a team of biologists and polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst show that increasing the surface area of gecko toe pads alone can not explain this.

Now an analysis of genes pulled from toe pads of stuffed museum specimens suggests that a tendency for boom - and - bust cycles might have been written into the passenger pigeon's DNA and contributed to the species's downfall.

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Symptoms include fever, coughing, green nasal and eye discharge, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, loss of appetite, thickened toe pads, muscle twitching, seizures, and blindness.

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Toe pad measurements were taken on the expanded scales at the end of the longest toe.

Geckos can scale walls because of their unique toe pads that help them quickly attach and detach from surfaces.

It had been assumed that larger toe pads account for the ability of larger geckos to climb as well as smaller ones.

«The springy mechanics of large and small gecko toe pad adhesion: Researchers find spring - like mechanics help geckos walk on walls.»

Over the course of just 20 generations, the green anoles have developed larger and stickier toe pads that help them navigate their higher territory, researchers report in the current issue of Science.

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Due to normal dog play styles, occassional injuries like skin scrapes, puncture wounds, toe pad injuries, nail trauma or ligament strain or sprain may happen as a result of social play interactions.

Feet round, compact, catlike, standing well upon the thick toe pads.

Interestingly, gecko toe pads are covered with bristle - like layers of a stiff material called keratin.

Regardless, the genetic sleuthing in the case of the missing passenger pigeon gives hope that waiting in museum drawers lies a rich repository of genetic information about species both extinct and living, and all of it accessible from small samples like a toe pad.

The three males» toe pads yielded long stretches of the passenger pigeon genome (although the female toe pad proved a bust).

The change occurred at an astonishing pace: Within a few months, native lizards had begun shifting to higher perches, and over the course of 15 years and 20 generations, their toe pads had become larger, with more sticky scales on their feet.

To conserve the famous naturalist's specimen, a southern crowned pigeon (Goura scheepmakeri), Besnard and his colleagues snipped a tiny piece of dried flesh from the bird's toe pad.

More than 100 parallel scratch lines made by the animal's scales follow the same direction as the toe pads.

The bristle - like structure of the keratin in a toe pad helps it to stick — each pad is covered with microscopic pillars, which then branch out at the tips into even smaller structures.

By incorporating both the area of the gecko toe pad and stiffness in their model, the biologists found it was possible to explain 92 percent of the variation in adhesive ability among a variety of gecko species.

Geckos employ dry adhesion, using a combination of microscopic hairs on their toe pads, as well as other aspects of internal anatomy, to climb vertical walls and run across ceilings, a skill that has long fascinated scientists.

(B) Photograph of FUI8 on the upper footprint surface at FwJj14E, showing good definition of the toe pads; the second toe is partially obscured by the third toe.

RNA - directed DNA methylation links the epigenetic landscape to the ecological adaptations manifested in the morphology of the toe pads.

- Gently touch between the toe pads, treats!

Press gently on each toe pad, treat after each one!

When it occurs on the toe pads, cat litter has occasionally been implicated.

One technique that helps is to hold the handle of the nail trimmers flat against the toe pad and cut straight across the nail, so that the nail will sit just above the ground.

Inspecting the toe pads and nails after a day out running or playing is of vital importance.

It occurs when the outside toe (less frequently, the inside toe) of the forefoot ceases normal growth at about three months of age, leaving the affected toe shorter than the other three and its toe pad atrophied.

A very common problems is abcesses developing between the toe pads (from standing on wire), typically with draining and TLC the abcess heals.

To trim, hold the paw and gently press the toe pad to extend the claw.

Clip your cats nails - if your cat's claws get too long, they may curve back into the toe pad.

Signs of distemper include fever, cough, nasal and eye discharge that is usually thick and green, pneumonia, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, thickening of the toe pads, muscle twitching, seizures and blindness.

Some species have particular «tells,» such as the size of the toe pad or the arch of the back.

«The nanopillars and larger structures on the toe pads come in direct contact with surfaces,» notes the magazine.