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Highspeed movie of mandible powered jump captured at 10,000 fps.

Embodied latch mechanism of the mandible to power at ultra-high speed in the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus kuroiwae

Hitoshi Aonuma, Keisuke Naniwa, Yasuhiro Sugimoto, Kyohsuke Ohkawara, and Katsushi Kagaya

Journal of Experimental Biology 2023. 226:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.245396

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