Oak Grove Middle School

Concord, California

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Oak Grove Middle School Science Class Trip to the

University of California at Berkeley

Professor Full

Animals with Many Legs!

Department of Integrative Biology


Professor Full directs the PolyPEDAL (many-footed) laboratory. He is the world's expert on how many-legged animals run and climb. He helps engineers build legged robots. First, he told us about all the different animals he studies by talking about the pictures on the walls.
  Professor Full has a lot of computers and really neat equipment in his laboratory. He even uses Jello to measure how animals push on the ground!

We got to see a huge gecko run up the wall while Professor Full explained to us how the gecko's feet stick to the wall. They have a billion little hairs and don't use glue or suction cups!

Geckos are really cool!

 
   
   

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