The researchers used
high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing
conditions. The scientists think frog tongues could one day
help engineers design reversible soft adhesives that could work at high speeds.
These two frogs are so similar that you might think are of the same species, but in fact they are not, they are different species, but one, Ranitomeya imitator (below), whose name could not be more appropriate, is a master of camouflage, and mimics Ranitomeya summersi (above) with remarkable accuracy.
Ranitomeya imitator, commonly referred to as Mimic Poison Frog, is known for its variety of phenotypes (morphs) even in a single population, however, at the Huallaga Canyon, R. imitator exhibits only the phenotype mimic of the sympatric and EndangeredR. summersi, known from only a few localities in central Peru near the Huallaga river valley.
