| Because the hooklike cells are bent downward and to the rear, a gecko must curl its pads upward to disengage them. |
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| Wide and flat with long, hooklike claws, they are well adapted to snatching prey from the surface of still water. |
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| Flipping roaches ReprintsDr Full and his colleagues have since identified similar behaviour in other animals with hooklike toes that are good at escaping pursuit: geckos, for example. |
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| The process is highly developed in the gibbon and siamang, which are anatomically adapted for it in the length of their forelimbs, their long hooklike fingers, and the mobility of their shoulder joints. |
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| The filiform variety are less numerous in cats than in dogs but are more heavily cornified, with backward-pointing hooklike tips. |
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| The hooklike hands have long fingers and palms with short thumbs. |
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| As they report in the Public Library of Science, cockroaches running towards a gap suddenly grip the edge with the hooklike claws on their rear legs and swing 180° to land firmly underneath the ledge, upside down. |
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