Why Don't Sleeping Bats Fall Down?

Why Don't Sleeping Bats Fall Down?

• Why Don't Sleeping Bats Fall Down?

Published on Nov 3, 2015
Bats sleep upside down, so how come they don’t fall? Turns out that they’ve got some unusual legs.
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Sources:

• Flying foxes tendon locking mechanism
• Bat tendon locking mechanism paper
• Review paper on grasping in tetrapods
• Vampire bats don’t have a “passive digital lock” (could not access full article but this was stated in abstract):http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstrac...
• Vampire bats “strike their victims from the ground”
• Vampire bats have stronger legs / are faster on the ground