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Biomimetic Designers Take Note: Goat Hooves Confer Ninja-like Climbing Abilities

If you were my boss at an animal design firm and I submitted you this proposal sketch for a climbing animal, you’d probably think about firing me. There’s nothing in the structure of this animal that suggests it would be good at scaling things. Well, maybe you’ve seen these photos that National Geo ran last year by photographer Adriano Migliorati: