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Why can’t we climb like spiderman?

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ISN’T it fascinating to climb and crawl all over the place just like the Spiderman?
But, if Spiderman exists in real life, his shoes would need to be European size 145 or a US size 114 to support the weight of human sticking to the wall surfaces.

The reason that spiders, frogs, tiny mites, ants and any [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] other insects are able to stick to vertical surfaces is their sticky feet, thanks to their small body volume, they could use small proportion of body surface to support its weight and stick to wall surface using its feet, escaping from their predators.

Larger animals, including humans don’t get to do the same because as they get larger, they need wider surface area to enable them to stick to the wall surface. And imagine a lion or elephant climbing using the same method as those insects, they would need their entire body submerged into sticky solution!!!

That’s why animal kingdom has wide range of surviving skills, and sticky feet are for the smaller ones.

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