Word: flytrapã
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Mahadevan explained in an interview that when an insect lands on one of the flytrap??s hinged leaves, it stimulates small hairs on their surfaces. This stimulation moves water within the plant and causes the flytrap to store elastic energy, which is then released as the flytrap shuts. Once the plant snaps shut, it takes hours to reopen...
...been thinking about [the flytrap??s movement] on and off. Then we had it in front of us,” Mahadevan remembers...
...study the flytrap??s movement, Mahadevan used a high speed ultraviolet video, and then developed a mathematical model to describe the movements. Instead of insects, he used a glass rod to stimulate the flytrap??s leaves...
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