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Expert Jumper
The red - headed Agama lizard ( Agama agama ) is an expert jumper , know for its ability to land such leaps safely .
Vertical Leap
scientist take telecasting of the reddish - headed Agama lizard making running saltation toward a vertical wall . The horizontal platform they pass over from had varying surface , from slippery to sandpaperlike .
The Experiment
researcher bear their leap lounge lizard experiment , video - recording the Agama lizard taking spring toward a vertical wall . point from leave to right : Evan Chang - Siu , Daniel Cohen , Ardian Jusufi , Thomas Libby and Deborah Li .
Leaping Lizards
A red - headed African Agama lounge lizard swings its tail up to prevent frontwards pitching after a slip during take - off . Researchers have found that predatory dinosaur like Velociraptor likely used their tails for such constancy , puddle them quite the acrobat .
Lizard & Bot
A red - headed Agama lizard stands beside Tailbot , a simple car equipped with an actively hold tail that can quickly right itself in midair even when drop nose - down .
Velociraptor Tail
A lounge lizard ( Agama agama ) with the Tailbot golem and a model ofVelociraptor(Discovery Channel 4D Anatomy Model , 2008 Fame Master Ent . Ltd. ) .
Tightrope Walker
investigator think raptor as well as today ’s lizards apply their tail much as tightrope walker habituate balancing poles ( tilting the perch to make their bodies list in the opposite direction of the tilt ) . The extinct reptilian would have bent their tail coat to control the orientation of their bodies as they leap .
Red-Headed Agama
Here , anAgama agamalizard photographed in the wild in Tsavo home park , Kenya .
