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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Did you know that the geckos are scientifically regarded as being the superheroes of the animal world? Well, this is fact! Geckos, which are colourful lizards have the capacity to scamper rapidly up walls; scuttle along ceilings or even hang upside down on polished glass. The field of science and research have has been greatly impressed with the abilities of these creatures. Scientific experts have also revealed that the climbing ability of the geckos has longly been a mystery until it was discovered that the underside of the geckos' foot looks like a tyre tread. Indeed, in-depth scientific research have demonstrated that the foot of a gecko possesses millions of microscopic hairs. In addition to this, each hair is splitted into hundreds of tips just 200 billionths of a metre wide. Scientists have advanced that the gecko climbing exploits weak physical forces between molecules. Hence, this could explain how a gecko can support its own body weight on just one finger, and a single gecko hair can lift the weight of an ant...
