Changed By: Laz Change Date: August 21, 2019 08:39PM A very vague analogy to what the glue does:
"Hawks feet have a ratchet-like mechanism to aid capturing & keeping their prey without too much exertion, allowing them to concentrate on any other possible predators. The hawk clenches her muscles, tightening the toes around the prey (gripping it with the talons), when the muscles are released, the toes & talons remain locked in place."
To give proper credit, I copied this excerpt from: http://www.pauldfrost.co.uk/intro.html and was aware of the mechanism from some tv nature show on raptors.
The narrator mentioned that there are band-like muscles around the direct, talong on-actuating muscles that require much less effort to keep under tension.
Changed By: Laz Change Date: August 21, 2019 08:37PM A very vague analogy to what the glue does:
"Hawks feet have a ratchet-like mechanism to aid capturing & keeping their prey without too much exertion, allowing them to concentrate on any other possible predators. The hawk clenches her muscles, tightening the toes around the prey (gripping it with the talons), when the muscles are released, the toes & talons remain locked in place."
To give proper credit, I copied this excerpt from: http://www.pauldfrost.co.uk/intro.html and was aware of the mechanism from some tv nature show on raptors.
The narrator mentioned that there are band-like muscles around the long ones that require much less effort to keep under tension.
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Author: Laz Date: August 21, 2019 08:34PM A very vague analogy to what the glue does:
"Hawks feet have a ratchet-like mechanism to aid capturing & keeping their prey without too much exertion, allowing them to concentrate on any other possible predators. The hawk clenches her muscles, tightening the toes around the prey (gripping it with the talons), when the muscles are released, the toes & talons remain locked in place."
To give proper credit, I copied this excerpt from: http://www.pauldfrost.co.uk/intro.html and was aware of the mechanism from some tv nature show on raptors.