How a Stick Insect Walks | ScienceTake

The delightfully improbable stick insect uses two pairs of legs to walk and the front pair to check out what lies ahead. Find out more in this 2016 episode of ScienceTake.
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[@boop53]

Get stick bugged lol

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Get stick bugged lol

[@Amber7H]

get stick bugged lol

[@aileraguilar3976]

Walk it like I talk it

[@judyl.761]

Stick bugs are awesome.

[@DarknetDude]

Nature is an excellent teacher.

[@memedude8303]

Victorious Vehicon get stick bugged lol

[@howtodoit4204]

Nature is the new God for atheists. Dont care if you don’t believe in god but nature is your god since you attribute creation to it

[@catkeys6911]

At 6 yrs old, I was blown away when I saw one at a family friends estate in the Adirondack Mountains. I'd never seen such a huge insect! I still remember this, even though I'm 69 now.

[@lovesanimalshatesrats6339]

I never knew these existed in Canada until I saw one on my window screen. They camouflage so well I guess most people don’t usually see them. I ran around my house telling my family and even went to tell my neighbor and no one gave af, but I was so excited.

[@sadge0]

"no one give af" so true, it's like they see them everyday (they don't) 😭

[@gabe-po9yi]

The technology and methods used to determine such things as how a stick insect walks is just incredible. Especially when the subject of the study is small or has tiny body parts.

[@howtodoit4204]

But the stick insect itself isn’t according to evolution since it’s just random crap

[@motolumpy1216]

That was adorable

[@simiralentertainment6934]

This creature is a biological robot from the planet Mars. Even Aliens are afraid of him ...))

[@ChainsGoldMask]

It will never be as cute, because the original will never be weaponized.

[@snowyalice]

I had a pet Goliath stick insect and it was such a fun pet to have.

[@QuarterAgedMillennial]

Cute?

[@ohwell9481]

lmao that is exactly what i said

[@RF-Ataraxia]

Very

[@elhammo7478]

Definitely

[@mackenzierynebagtong8549]

I love to see that in personal.

[@felixvasin758]

i was laying in bed one night and felt the creepiest crawling feeling coming from UNDER my shirt. i grabbed that area of my shirt as hard as i could and bundled it up in a ball and thre it to the floor faster than i thought possible. when i went to see what it was, it was a (dead) pregnant stick bug :( i never felt fear turn into remorse so quickly.

[@MoonChild-po9du]

Good writing

[@robinsss]

now who said they don't believe in adaptation?

[@takkiedewandelendetak416]

I was alsof lying in my bed when a stick bug was walking on me in the middle of the night, but I just put him back in his cage, and now he is a happy stick insect

[@mayodonut]

get stickbugged lol

[@willvanrooy6878]

This is where George Lucas got the idea for Mo-Cap in the Star Wars Prequels 😂

[@psychicfriendfredbeararchi1751]

*GET STICK BUGGED LOL*

[@presidenttogekiss635]

So it's basically becoming four legged.

[@robinsss]

now who said they don't believe in adaptation?

[@colbyneal8654]

Nice
Stickbug video

[@LadyAneh]

Stick insect? That’s clearly a bowtruckle. Muggles, I tell ya.

[@parwhal8152]

lol thats a funny fantastic beast refrence

[@1un4cy]

get hectered lol

[@jeanineshiman8228]

Do stick bugs move quickly? Had one on my glass door, put him in a glass bowl to take him to a tree and he somehow escaped before I got to the tree, I looked an looked but couldn't find him, I crossed my gravel driveway, I hope he is okay, he was so cute 😢😢

[@ajlucky0076]

Get stick bugged

[@oldcowbb]

thats some clumsy walking to learning from

[@wanderchannel6597]

Are you pulling a tree branch with a thread?

[@alexanderx33]

It's not a thought at all.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Biomimicry.

[@Skorpyo_]

U just got
Stikbugd

[@trisnakalangi1228]

Tere

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I want to say it

[@yosefdemby8792]

I can see that they use all six legs when walking. Not four like Abrahamic religious scholars claim

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Get stick bugged lol

[@BananenBrot484]

Cute?

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Get stick bugged lol

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Get stick bugged lol