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Re:Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature by zimpenfish on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:20AM (#35324877)
> an intricate gearing system that locks their back legs together, allowing both appendages to rotate at the exact same instant

That sounds like transmission of motion to me?

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Re:Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature by cjrp on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:50AM (#35326663)
If I lock my hands together, rotating one of my wrists also rotates the other wrist. I'm not saying it's a _useful_ transfer of motion though!
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Re:Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature by bagacrap on Monday March 27, 2023 @10:29AM (#35327100)
Only if one leg is pushing the other leg
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Re:Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature by rantallion on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:17AM (#35327812)
> To confirm that the gears performed this function, the researchers performed a neat (albeit morbid) trick with some dead Issus. They manually cocked their legs back in a jumping position, then electrically stimulated the main jumping muscle in one leg so that the leg extended. Because it was rotationally locked by the gears, the other non-stimulated leg moved as well, and the dead insect jumped forward.
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