Walking on water: Fishing spiders move over water in ways that appear perplexing, yet the mechanics of their locomotion yield readily to experimental analysis

American Scientist

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 154-159

  Suter, Robert B ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0000573010     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/1999.2.154     Document Type: Article

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