Blood flow in the toes of wandering salamanders helps them to glide over the tops of redwood trees.
Wandering salamanders can fill, trap, and drain the blood in their toe tips to help them easily attach and detach to the bark of the trees.
Other salamanders exhibit similar mechanisms that allow wandering salamanders to thrive in coastal redwoods] The answer might be surprising.
Regulating blood flow, the authors said, allows the long-legged wandering salamanders to adjust pressure asymmetrically.
Slippery salamanders glide mysteriously through the canopies of the world’s tallest trees.
