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Oscillation of the velvet worm slime jet by passive hydrodynamic instability
Concha, Andres; mellado, paula; Morera, Bernal; Sampaio Costa, Cristiano; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan; Monge Nájera, Julián (Nature Communications, 2015-03-17)The rapid squirt of a proteinaceous slime jet endows velvet worms (Onychophora) with a unique mechanism for defence from predators and for capturing prey by entangling them in a disordered web that immobilizes their target. ...