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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Scaly-tail organ enhances static stability during Pel's scaly-tailed flying squirrels' arboreal locomotion.

Andrew K Schulz, Mrudul Chellapurath, Pranav C Khandelwal, SeyedReza Rezaei, Stefan Merker, Ardian Jusufi

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Andrew K SchulzLocomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8007-5157
Mrudul ChellapurathLocomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7145-0912
Pranav C KhandelwalLocomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0589-4467
SeyedReza RezaeiLocomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0009-0000-8936-8845
Stefan MerkerDepartment of Zoology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3142-7720
Ardian JusufiLocomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4250-2984

Funding

Cyber Valley Research AwardMax-Planck-Gesellschaft
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scaly-tailed squirrels (Anomaluridae) are one of the least studied mammalian families. Their name is due to a peculiar and unique scaly-tail organ extruding from the caudal vertebra that has been predicted to help reduce skidding. This study investigates the function of the scaly-tail organ found in

Indexed as

LocomotionModels, BiologicalSciuridaeTailAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaAnomularidaebio-inspirationfrictionglidingmammaltail

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PMID40555385
PMCPMC12187390

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