Snails employ a distinctive crawling mechanism in which the pedal waves travel along the
foot and interact with the mucus to promote efficient movement on various substrates …

Suction is a highly evolved biological adhesion strategy for soft-body organisms to achieve
strong gras** on various objects. Biological suckers can adaptively attach to dry complex …

Paleoclimatic records of sub-annual to interannual resolution are valuable for the study of
climatic forcing mechanisms but these records are rare in terrestrial settings. Here, we show …

Holonomic mobile micromanipulators driven by piezoelectric actuators offer precision and
compact design. However, attaining both high speed and positioning repeatability with …

Movement plays a crucial role in animal behavior. However, despite the prevalence of
uneven terrains in nature, many movement studies are conducted in arenas with smooth …

Since the birth of the financial market, the industry and academia want to find a method to
accurately predict the future trend of the financial market. The ultimate goal of this paper is to …

The extreme divergence of phenotypes between two closely related terrestrial gastropods,
Karaftohelix editha and K. gainesi (Camaenidae, Stylommatophora), has been suggested as …

Landouria smimensis is an endemic land snail found in the Mount Semeru area. This
species can be found in different altitudes of Mount Semeru. The study aimed to analyze the …

Urbanization is a complex and multivariate environmental change inducing major
disturbances, eg habitat fragmentation/loss, changes in local climate, soil imperviousness …

Microhabitat selection may play an important role in how a species utilizes a habitat through
seasons and sizes of individuals in a population. This study documented the choice of Vitta …