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Top: sketch of an active whisker (blue) undergoing protraction at its base during sustained contact with a stationary object (green). The protraction angle θ is defined relative to the surface normal. Bottom: re-display of the data shown in Fig. 1, to show the maximum protraction angle as a function of normalized object distance r/L. Symbols as in Fig. 2.
