This video shows a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus bauri) that fired its jaws against a hard surface and launched itself into the air (filmed at 3000 frames per second, played back at 30 frames per second).
Mechanics of Movement Videos
High Speed videography and video analysis are one of the research tools used by the Patek Lab when studying the mechanics of movement. Below are a selection of videos used in past research.
All | Mechanics of Movement | Sound in the Sea | Mantis Shrimp | Spiny Lobster | Trap-Jaw Ant | Miscellaneous
All | Mechanics of Movement | Sound in the Sea | Mantis Shrimp | Spiny Lobster | Trap-Jaw Ant | Miscellaneous
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Filmed at 3000 frames per second and played back at 30 frames per second, this video shows a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus bauri) firing its jaws against a hard surface and launching itself backwards.
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This video shows a rotating external micro-CT scan image of a California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus) with its sound producing structures indicated in color.
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California spiny lobsters (Panulirus interruptus) produce sound by rubbing the base of each antenna (plectrum) over an oblong "file" under each eye. Instead of using a typical arthropod mechanism in which a hard pick is dragged...
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This video shows Sheila Patek as a postdoctoral fellow in 2004 talking about the mantis shrimp system. This talk was delivered in the earliest days of the development of this system - we've discovered many more intriguing things since then...
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The extremely rapid coalescence of the Buller's drop onto the spore allows the spore to fire rapidly from its sterigma (stem). This video was filmed at 20,000 frames per second and features the jelly fungus, Auricularia auricula...
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This video (filmed at 100,000 frames per second, played back at 1 frame per second) shows "Buller's drop" which provides the surface tension energy necessary to fire the microscopic spore (approximately 10 microns length) from its stem (...
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Graduate student Maya deVries went on a NSF-funded research trip to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia to collect mantis shrimp. She made this audio slide show in collaboration with the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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An audio slideshow about Jan St. Pierre's six weeks in the Patek Lab as a NSF-funded Research Experience for Teachers fellow.
